To Forgive Is To Suffer by Death Cover · Aron

209 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 6:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
209
LENGTH
6:01
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-5, 8-10 and 13-14, and 12 more places -- 12% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
TO FORGIVE IS TO SUFFER BY DEATH COVER · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 12, 27, 30 and 33 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

209 bars across 17 sections: 142 keep time and 39 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 102-116.

CHORUS
PART O
PART Y
CHORUS 2
PART AO
PART O
PART Y
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
12 groovesDOYAOJ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is To Forgive Is To Suffer by Death Cover?

130 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 To Forgive Is To Suffer by Death Cover hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 87 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

209 bars, about 6:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 79 exercises over 30 sittings, about 25 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 To Forgive Is To Suffer by Death Cover?

16 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 12, 27, 30 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 209 BARS ANALYSED
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