They Might As Well Be Dead · Chris Christodoulou

87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ElectronicProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 56-62, 64-66 and 68, and 8 more places -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
THEY MIGHT AS WELL BE DEAD · BAR 56
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 55, 63, 67, 69, 71, 73 and 6 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 7 sections: 48 keep time, 12 are fills, 6 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-10.

PART A
PART C
PART E
BREAK
PART E
OUTRO
6 groovesHES4AC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is They Might As Well Be Dead?

100 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 They Might As Well Be Dead hard to play on drums?

46 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 They Might As Well Be Dead?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 55, 63, 67, 69, 71, 73 and 6 more.

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