SOS · Dethklok

224 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:19 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
224
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 106-110, 112-117 and 120, and 9 more places -- 21.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
SOS · BAR 116
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 33, 48, 49, 65, 97, 104 and 22 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 48-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

224 bars across 11 sections: 153 keep time, 28 are fills and 32 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-81.

PART A
PART F
PART H
CHORUS
PART N
PART S
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKSHAF+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is SOS?

200 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 SOS hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

224 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 SOS?

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 33, 48, 49, 65, 97, 104 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 224 BARS ANALYSED
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