Sacrificial · Death

144 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
5:14
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-35, 37-43 and 73-79, and 7 more places -- 37.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
SACRIFICIAL · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 18, 20, 48, 52, 56 and 7 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 11 sections: 104 keep time, 13 are fills and 12 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-91.

PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART B
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJBGSE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sacrificial?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Sacrificial hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 5:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Sacrificial?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 18, 20, 48, 52, 56 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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