Wither Away · 40 Below Summer

91 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 9-11 and 26-27, and 11 more places -- 33.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 90 BPM
WITHER AWAY · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 24, 28, 30 and 13 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 9 sections: 52 keep time, 19 are fills, 1 is a stop and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-23.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART P
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesDHS8PS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wither Away?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Wither Away hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 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 Wither Away?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 24, 28, 30 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED
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