Sign of Life · Motionless In White

173 bars at 202 BPM -- fast, and 3:26 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalElectronic150 BPM and up
TEMPO
202 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 13 more places -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 202 BPM
SIGN OF LIFE · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 22, 24, 32, 40, 74 and 10 more.

LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

173 bars across 17 sections: 54 keep time, 16 are fills, 77 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-15.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART Q
CHORUS 5
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesCS16IMQ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sign of Life?

202 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 Sign of Life hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Sign of Life?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 22, 24, 32, 40, 74 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED
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