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Am I Dead? · Dreadknaw

EXERCISE 24 OF 66
2-bar fill at bar 31
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0 / 66 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
PART B
PART N
PART I
PART L
CHORUS
PART J
PART AF
OUTRO 2
11 groovesQBNAFJ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Am I Dead? on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at a walking 101 BPM, 4:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
101 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-5, ride through bars 6-11, hi-hat through bars 12-39, toms through bars 40-42 and silence through bars 43-45, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-30 and 46-49 -- 9.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---xx|
Am I Dead? -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- N, Q -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AN -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-105 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 21-42 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 36-56 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Am I Dead??

101 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 Am I Dead? hard to play on drums?

55 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Am I Dead??

16 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED