The Day I Died, I Heard No Singing · Balmora

173 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-17, 23-24 and 91-97, and 2 more places -- 13.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
THE DAY I DIED, I HEARD NO SINGING · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 2, 6, 18, 20, 22, 28 and 30 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

173 bars across 21 sections: 85 keep time, 36 are fills, 26 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-17.

CHORUS
PART I
PART X
CHORUS 2
PART AO
PART C
OUTRO 2
14 groovesGICAOX+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Day I Died, I Heard No Singing?

190 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 The Day I Died, I Heard No Singing hard to play on drums?

61 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 The Day I Died, I Heard No Singing?

22 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 2, 6, 18, 20, 22, 28 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED
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