The Sick, The Dying... And The Dead! · Megadeth

171 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 5:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
5:41
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-25, 27-29 and 31-33, and 12 more places -- 25.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 119 BPM
THE SICK, THE DYING... AND THE DEAD! · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 14, 21, 22, 30, 34, 40 and 30 more.

LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 119 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 95 · LANDS ON BAR 96

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

171 bars across 14 sections: 93 keep time, 36 are fills, 7 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-29.

CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART S8
CHORUS 3
PART S
PART AA
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
10 groovesKSAAS8N+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Sick, The Dying... And The Dead!?

119 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 Sick, The Dying... And The Dead! hard to play on drums?

54 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 5:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 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 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 Sick, The Dying... And The Dead!?

13 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 14, 21, 22, 30, 34, 40 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED
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