Song 10 · As I Lay Dying

163 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 130 BPM, 4:10 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 69-84 and 157-162 -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
SONG 10 · BARS 69-70
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 48, 56, 64, 106, 110, 114 and 7 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 106 · LANDS ON BAR 107 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 110 · LANDS ON BAR 111 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 128 · LANDS ON BAR 129

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 9 sections: 113 keep time, 15 are fills and 24 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 87-105.

CHORUS
PART F
PART J
PART M
PART U
7 groovesBJUMF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Song 10?

130 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Song 10 hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Song 10?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 48, 56, 64, 106, 110, 114 and 7 more.

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