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And Death In My Arms · All That Remains

EXERCISE 41 OF 55
2-bar fill at bar 130
144 / 244 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
COUNT-IN
PART G
PART B
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesZGLBS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 10
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play And Death In My Arms on drums

244 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 8:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
244
LENGTH
8:22
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25, snare through bars 26-35, hi-hat through bars 36-49, ride through bars 50-57 and snare through bars 58-65, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43, 45 and 47, and 16 more places -- 14.6% 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
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
And Death In My Arms -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 41, 49, 53, 57, 65, 69 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- G, L -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part I -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 48-71 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 78-126 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Bars 123-151 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is And Death In My Arms?

114 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 And Death In My Arms hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

244 bars, about 8:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 And Death In My Arms?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 41, 49, 53, 57, 65, 69 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 244 BARS ANALYSED