The Dust Of The Dead · Black Aliances Of Death

104 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 76% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-40 and 61-100 -- 76.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
THE DUST OF THE DEAD · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 16.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 8 sections: 81 keep time, 1 is a fill and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-100.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART E
BREAK 2
OUTRO
7 groovesDBES1S6+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Dust Of The Dead?

120 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 Dust Of The Dead hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Dust Of The Dead?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 16.

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