Sentenced To Life · Black Breath

104 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:26 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-28, 31-32 and 35, and 4 more places -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 170 BPM
SENTENCED TO LIFE · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 8, 29, 30, 33, 34 and 9 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 29-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 5 sections: 73 keep time, 15 are fills, 9 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-16.

PART F
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO 2
4 groovesJSFQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sentenced To Life?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Sentenced To Life hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Sentenced To Life?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 8, 29, 30, 33, 34 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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