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A Certain Death · Misery Signals

EXERCISE 10 OF 69
Groove I
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CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART V
PART AC
PART AG
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEAGAPARR+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Certain Death on drums

156 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 192 BPM, 2:54 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
78/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, ride through bars 2-4, snare through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, snare through bars 21-22 and hi-hat through bars 23-26, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 106-132 -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    107
    1.......2.......3.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---x-x-x-x-|
A Certain Death -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 3, 4, 21, 26, 31, 39 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- AP -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is A Certain Death?

192 BPM, in 3/4, 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 A Certain Death hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 20 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 A Certain Death?

14 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 3, 4, 21, 26, 31, 39 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED