The Dulcet Taste Of The Death · Atherakia

150 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5-17 and 31, and 2 more places -- 30.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
THE DULCET TASTE OF THE DEATH · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 150.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 150
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

150 bars across 14 sections: 120 keep time, 1 is a fill and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 124-149.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
BREAK
PART I
PART I
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCDMIH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Dulcet Taste Of The Death?

140 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 Dulcet Taste Of The Death hard to play on drums?

63 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 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 Dulcet Taste Of The Death?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 150.

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