When I Die, A Thousand Birds Will Fly From My Mouth · septemberistheonlytimeidontthinkofyou

147 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 3:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 27 and 29, and 11 more places -- 11% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 168 BPM
WHEN I DIE, A THOUSAND BIRDS WILL FLY FROM MY MOUTH · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 24, 26, 28, 30, 31, 40 and 30 more.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BARS 30-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

147 bars across 23 sections: 66 keep time, 36 are fills, 11 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-16.

PART B
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART R
PART X
PART AA
PART S20
CHORUS 5
15 groovesFLBRX+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is When I Die, A Thousand Birds Will Fly From My Mouth?

168 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 When I Die, A Thousand Birds Will Fly From My Mouth hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 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, 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 When I Die, A Thousand Birds Will Fly From My Mouth?

16 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 24, 26, 28, 30, 31, 40 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED
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