The Past Should Stay Dead · Emarosa

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 4:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Progressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 31, 69-71 and 73-76 -- 8.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 91 BPM
THE PAST SHOULD STAY DEAD · BARS 69-70
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12 and 25 more.

LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 91 BPM
BARS 7-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 18 sections: 47 keep time, 31 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 85-89.

PART B
PART S
CHORUS
PART AL
PART AA
PART X
PART BA
PART BE
OUTRO 2
15 groovesAEBAASX+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Past Should Stay Dead?

91 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Past Should Stay Dead hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Past Should Stay Dead?

19 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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