The Ultra-Violence · Death Angel

511 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 22:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
511
LENGTH
22:36
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 106-107, 257-263 and 265-271, and 10 more places -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
THE ULTRA-VIOLENCE · BAR 258
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

33 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 17, 19, 33, 43, 44, 87 and 54 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

29 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

511 bars across 50 sections: 341 keep time, 60 are fills, 36 are stops and 35 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 281-299.

PART AK
PART AV
CHORUS 3
35 groovesADBGNAAK+30Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Ultra-Violence?

90 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 Ultra-Violence hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

511 bars, about 22:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 152 exercises over 43 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 Ultra-Violence?

33 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 17, 19, 33, 43, 44, 87 and 54 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 511 BARS ANALYSED
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