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As Good As Dead · Through The Eyes Of The Dead

As Good As Dead · Through The Eyes Of The Dead
EXERCISE 6 OF 71
Groove A -- Part A (a two-bar phrase)
70 / 210 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART E
PART J
PART O
PART Y
PART AH
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesAFAHOACJ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 7
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play As Good As Dead on drums

210 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 6:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
210
LENGTH
6:13
DIFFICULTY
73/100

snare through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-8, snare through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, snare through bars 41-48 and kick and crashes through bars 49-50, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 89-92, 162-167 and 170-175, and 1 more place -- 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.

    89
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
As Good As Dead -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 16, 32, 42, 46, 56, 72 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- AF, AH -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is As Good As Dead?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 As Good As Dead hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

210 bars, about 6:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 As Good As Dead?

10 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 16, 32, 42, 46, 56, 72 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 210 BARS ANALYSED