Towards Dead End · Children Of Bodom

277 bars at 216 BPM -- fast, and 5:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
216 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
277
LENGTH
5:08
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-5, 10-16 and 18-21, and 4 more places -- 32.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 216 BPM
TOWARDS DEAD END · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 17, 34, 35, 63, 67 and 20 more.

LOOP · 216 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 216 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 216 BPM
BARS 34-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 216 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

277 bars across 18 sections: 198 keep time, 28 are fills, 30 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 100-131.

CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS 4
PART X
PART G
CHORUS 5
PART J
PART U
OUTRO
9 groovesBGUXJ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Towards Dead End?

216 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Towards Dead End hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

277 bars, about 5:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 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 Towards Dead End?

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 17, 34, 35, 63, 67 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 277 BARS ANALYSED
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