We Should Be Buried Like This · Bloodred Hourglass

161 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 3:08 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-23, 25-31 and 83-89, and 4 more places -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 205 BPM
WE SHOULD BE BURIED LIKE THIS · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 16, 36, 38, 40, 50 and 16 more.

LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 15 sections: 97 keep time, 22 are fills, 23 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-32.

PART A
CHORUS
PART M
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART AC
OUTRO 2
11 groovesDARACAU+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is We Should Be Buried Like This?

205 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 We Should Be Buried Like This hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 We Should Be Buried Like This?

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 16, 36, 38, 40, 50 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED
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