the die has been cast · Femme Fatale

119 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-39, 42-44 and 46-47, and 6 more places -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 125 BPM
THE DIE HAS BEEN CAST · BAR 81
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 40, 41, 45, 48, 52, 56 and 16 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 40-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 12 sections: 75 keep time, 22 are fills, 2 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-25.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART C
PART M
PART P
PART S
CHORUS 2
10 groovesFCPS1D+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is the die has been cast?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 the die has been cast hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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 the die has been cast?

14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 40, 41, 45, 48, 52, 56 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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