Slow Death · Obituary

91 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-24, 33-40 and 81-88 -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
SLOW DEATH · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 26, 28 and 8 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 47-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 11 sections: 61 keep time, 14 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-70.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART P
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFPAHD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Slow Death?

130 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 Slow Death hard to play on drums?

57 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 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Slow Death?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 26, 28 and 8 more.

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