What Doesn't Die · Anthrax

184 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 91-97, 99-113 and 115-121 -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 185 BPM
WHAT DOESN'T DIE · BAR 91
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 20, 36, 46, 62, 90, 98 and 8 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 98 · LANDS ON BAR 99 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

184 bars across 18 sections: 136 keep time, 14 are fills, 5 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 161-182.

PART K
PART K
PART N
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
13 groovesRWNKA+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is What Doesn't Die?

185 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 What Doesn't Die hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 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 What Doesn't Die?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 20, 36, 46, 62, 90, 98 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED
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