Suicide Machine · Death

163 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 6:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
6:31
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 46-48, and 10 more places -- 20.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
SUICIDE MACHINE · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 28 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 4-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 17 sections: 108 keep time, 34 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-56.

PART A
CHORUS
PART S
PART AA
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AP
PART BE
CHORUS 4
PART S
PART AA
CHORUS 5
9 groovesLSAAAPBE+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Suicide Machine?

100 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Suicide Machine hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 6:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 24 sittings, about 24 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 Suicide Machine?

18 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED
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