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Adapt or Die · Forbidden
EXERCISE 3 OF 83
Groove S -- Part S
78 / 238 BARS COVERED
0 / 83 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT
PART D
CHORUS
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART AE
PART AM
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
10 groovesOAESAMD+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 24
LAND · 24
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Adapt or Die on drums

238 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 5:09 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
238
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
63/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-17, toms through bars 18-19, kick and crashes through bars 20-21, toms through bars 22-23 and hi-hat through bars 24-47, and 37 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-46, 65-70 and 72-86, and 2 more places -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---x---|
Adapt or Die -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

24 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 7, 18, 19, 47, 48, 49 and 56 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- O, AE -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-37 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 48-68 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 71-106 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 104-120 -- 9 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Adapt or Die?

184 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 Adapt or Die hard to play on drums?

63 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 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

238 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 15 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Adapt or Die?

24 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 7, 18, 19, 47, 48, 49 and 56 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 238 BARS ANALYSED