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A Fine Day To Die · Bathory

EXERCISE 3 OF 40
Groove B -- Part B (a two-bar phrase)
121 / 211 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S7
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFJS7BD+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Fine Day To Die on drums

211 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 90 BPM, 7:06 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
211
LENGTH
7:06
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-131, silence through bars 132-146, kick and crashes through bars 147-150, toms through bars 151-153 and kick and crashes through bars 154-158, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 23 and 25, and 41 more places -- 46.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|
HH |-ooooooooooo|
SD |---x-----x--|
BD |x-----x-----|
A Fine Day To Die -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 32, 84, 96, 114, 122, 158 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- F, G -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 9-33 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 36-185 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 129-154 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 153-190 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is A Fine Day To Die?

90 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Fine Day To Die hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

211 bars, about 7:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 A Fine Day To Die?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 32, 84, 96, 114, 122, 158 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 211 BARS ANALYSED