The Death of Innocence · Dark Angel

226 bars at 245 BPM -- fast, and 3:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
245 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
226
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
94/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-20, 30-36 and 46-53, and 16 more places -- 33.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 245 BPM
THE DEATH OF INNOCENCE · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 5, 13, 21, 28, 37 and 26 more.

LOOP · 245 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 245 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 245 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 245 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

226 bars across 18 sections: 165 keep time, 32 are fills, 9 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 106-120.

PART D
CHORUS 3
PART O
CHORUS 5
PART V
CHORUS 6
PART O
CHORUS 7
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFODVH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Death of Innocence?

245 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 Death of Innocence hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

226 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 The Death of Innocence?

17 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 5, 13, 21, 28, 37 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 226 BARS ANALYSED
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