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Better Off Dead · Ingested

EXERCISE 1 OF 75
Groove H -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART L
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART S
CHORUS 3
PART AQ
PART AQ
OUTRO
12 groovesHSLAQV+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 3
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Better Off Dead on drums

146 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:19 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-10, toms through bars 11-12, ride through bars 13-14, toms through bars 15-17, silence through bars 18-20 and snare through bars 21-95, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-28, 45 and 47, and 11 more places -- 21.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Better Off Dead -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 11, 12, 15, 16, 30, 32 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- H -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V, AQ -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part S3 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-33 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part L -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part S -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Better Off 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 Better Off Dead hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 19 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Better Off Dead?

16 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 11, 12, 15, 16, 30, 32 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED