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A Dead Language For A Dying Lady · Vanna

EXERCISE 12 OF 47
Groove D -- Part D
99 / 160 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART B
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART R
OUTRO 2
10 groovesHGTBR+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Dead Language For A Dying Lady on drums

160 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 5:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
5:31
DIFFICULTY
48/100

snare through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-25, snare through bars 26-29, hi-hat through bars 30-33 and snare through bars 34-37, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 54-65, 82 and 84, and 5 more places -- 22.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    54               55
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|--x-x-----x---x-|
A Dead Language For A Dying Lady -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 21, 68, 69, 83, 89 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- H, G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 18-75 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 77-87 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 91-126 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is A Dead Language For A Dying Lady?

116 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 A Dead Language For A Dying Lady hard to play on drums?

48 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 5:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 A Dead Language For A Dying Lady?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 21, 68, 69, 83, 89 and 5 more.

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