Yeah, Girls A Death Trap · Dead Center Symphony

140 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 44-45, 48-49 and 52-53, and 12 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
YEAH, GIRLS A DEATH TRAP · BAR 44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 21, 39, 41, 73, 79, 81 and 6 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 94 · LANDS ON BAR 95 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 10 sections: 107 keep time, 12 are fills, 6 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-18.

PART C
PART G
PART I
PART P
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJCIGT+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Yeah, Girls A Death Trap?

190 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 Yeah, Girls A Death Trap hard to play on drums?

51 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Yeah, Girls A Death Trap?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 21, 39, 41, 73, 79, 81 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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