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Are You Dead Yet? · Children Of Bodom

EXERCISE 9 OF 92
2-bar fill at bar 8
45 / 182 BARS COVERED
0 / 92 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART AA
PART R
PART AA
PART AJ
9 groovesFJAAMAJ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 11
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Are You Dead Yet? on drums

182 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 3:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
69/100

snare through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, ride through bars 18-25, toms through bars 26-29, hi-hat through bars 30-66 and ride through bars 67-73, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-32, 34-36 and 38-44, and 3 more places -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Are You Dead Yet? -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 17 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 68 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 -- M -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 17-30 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-34 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part M -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part M -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 31-98 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Are You Dead Yet??

192 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 Are You Dead Yet? hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

182 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 17 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 Are You Dead Yet??

23 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 17 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 182 BARS ANALYSED