THE DYING MESSAGE · Utsu-P

227 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
227
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24, 26-32 and 65, and 6 more places -- 19.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
THE DYING MESSAGE · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 17, 25, 33, 37, 41, 57 and 26 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

227 bars across 17 sections: 171 keep time, 32 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART B
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART W
PART J
CHORUS 3
10 groovesMEBJW+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is THE DYING MESSAGE?

200 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 DYING MESSAGE hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

227 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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 DYING MESSAGE?

12 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 17, 25, 33, 37, 41, 57 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 227 BARS ANALYSED
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