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As I Die · Paradise Lost

EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove C -- Chorus
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PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART G
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCBFEI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play As I Die on drums

103 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
48/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-18, ride through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-34, ride through bars 35-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-52, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 27-29, and 9 more places -- 30.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
As I Die -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 72 and 86.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- C, A -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-60 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 26-63 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 65-85 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is As I Die?

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 As I Die hard to play on drums?

48 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 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 I Die?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 72 and 86.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED