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Born Dead · Death

EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove G -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGJMDB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Born Dead on drums

171 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 4:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
78/100

ride through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-6, ride through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-10, ride through bars 11-12 and hi-hat through bars 13-14, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-40, 58-73 and 88-95, and 6 more places -- 46.7% 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
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Born Dead -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 12, 15, 16 and 8 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through the Break -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 3-18 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 5-22 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 12 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Born Dead?

153 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 Born Dead hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 12 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Born Dead?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 12, 15, 16 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED