Useless Sacrifice · Death Decline

235 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 4:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
235
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-25, 27-29 and 31, and 6 more places -- 17.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 210 BPM
USELESS SACRIFICE · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

31 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 49 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 12-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

27 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

235 bars across 20 sections: 125 keep time, 55 are fills, 31 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-56.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART AJ
PART AV
PART AY
PART AV
CHORUS 5
13 groovesLAVTAJB+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Useless Sacrifice?

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

Is Useless Sacrifice hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

235 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 88 exercises over 20 sittings, about 29 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 Useless Sacrifice?

31 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 235 BARS ANALYSED
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