Someone's Gonna Die · Blitz

112 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Punk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 70% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-29, 31 and 33, and 14 more places -- 70.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 150 BPM
SOMEONE'S GONNA DIE · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 76 and 78.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 6 sections: 91 keep time, 5 are fills, 9 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-70.

PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEAS4S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Someone's Gonna Die?

150 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 Someone's Gonna Die hard to play on drums?

47 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 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 Someone's Gonna Die?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 76 and 78.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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