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Better off Dead. · Sleeping With Sirens

EXERCISE 1 OF 34
Groove F -- Chorus
0 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 52 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART O
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFLAOD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Better off Dead. on drums

141 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:58 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
49/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, snare through bars 15-36, hi-hat through bars 37-43, snare through bars 44-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-63, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-16, 21-27 and 33-34, and 8 more places -- 37.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |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

2 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 28, 32, 44, 72, 76, 103 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- F, A -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 42-54 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 53-88 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 93-108 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Better off Dead.?

190 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 Better off Dead. hard to play on drums?

49 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Better off Dead.?

2 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 28, 32, 44, 72, 76, 103 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED