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art of dying helper · drpilbertsquingle

art of dying helper · drpilbertsquingle
EXERCISE 18 OF 18
Play the whole song with the record
82 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 85 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART BK
BREAK
PART S4
OUTRO
BREAK 2
6 groovesBGS4BKS6G+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play art of dying helper on drums

85 bars of 4/4 at 139 BPM, about 2:34 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
68/100

ride through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-24, ride through bars 25-60, snare through bars 61-72, ride through bars 73-81 and silence through bars 82-85.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 61 and 65-66 -- 3.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    61
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |rrrr-rrrr-rrrr-r|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
art of dying helper -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- BG, G -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BJ -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 47 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part BK -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 68-82 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is art of dying helper?

139 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 art of dying helper hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 2:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, 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 art of dying helper?

2 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED