So Much for Suicide · Tiamat

145 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 92% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-47 and 49-64, and 6 more places -- 91.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 138 BPM
SO MUCH FOR SUICIDE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 8, 88 and 144.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 4 sections: 88 keep time, 4 are fills, 51 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-78.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAS3S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is So Much for Suicide?

138 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 So Much for Suicide hard to play on drums?

39 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 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 So Much for Suicide?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 8, 88 and 144.

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