Till Death Do Us Part · White Lion

85 bars, 5:25, at 62 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
62 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
5:25
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-17, 19-21 and 33-35, and 13 more places -- 53.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 62 BPM
TILL DEATH DO US PART · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 13, 14, 18, 22, 30, 32 and 10 more.

LOOP · 62 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 62 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 62 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 7 sections: 55 keep time, 16 are fills, 1 is a stop and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-57.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesEHS1BS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Till Death Do Us Part?

62 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Till Death Do Us Part hard to play on drums?

45 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 5:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Till Death Do Us Part?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 13, 14, 18, 22, 30, 32 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED
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