Slaves Beyond Death · Thy Art Is Murder

173 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:37 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-39 and 61-63, and 6 more places -- 34.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 190 BPM
SLAVES BEYOND DEATH · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 44, 48, 52 and 42 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

173 bars across 15 sections: 85 keep time, 49 are fills, 12 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-23.

PART B
CHORUS
PART M
PART B
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEBMAAG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Slaves Beyond Death?

190 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 Slaves Beyond Death hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Slaves Beyond Death?

14 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 44, 48, 52 and 42 more.

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