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Birthday Dethday · Dethklok

EXERCISE 5 OF 50
Groove L -- Part L
28 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, PART S, OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART J
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART J
PART L
PART H
PART J
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEJLFS+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Birthday Dethday on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 2:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
70/100

toms through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-13, snare through bars 14-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25 and snare through bars 26-40, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-13, 18-25 and 41-43, and 1 more place -- 19.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 28, 29, 40 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-18 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-72 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 28-41 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 52-71 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Birthday Dethday?

147 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 Birthday Dethday hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Birthday Dethday?

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 28, 29, 40 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED