Sickness Unto Foolish Death · Akira Yamaoka

54 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 2:34 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

ElectronicAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
54
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-21 and 23-26, and 5 more places -- 47.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 84 BPM
SICKNESS UNTO FOOLISH DEATH · BAR 11
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

54 bars across 9 sections: 39 keep time and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-54.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
7 groovesBES1CS8+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sickness Unto Foolish Death?

84 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 Sickness Unto Foolish Death hard to play on drums?

45 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

54 bars, about 2:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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