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Bottom Of The Death Valley · Dir En Grey

EXERCISE 14 OF 54
Groove M
79 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART P
PART U
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEPUCAM+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bottom Of The Death Valley on drums

145 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-26, hi-hat through bars 27-70, ride through bars 71-97 and hi-hat through bars 98-145.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-57, 59-65 and 115-121, and 1 more place -- 20.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    52
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---xx--x-|
Bottom Of The Death Valley -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 30, 38, 42, 46, 49, 50 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- P, E -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part U -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bottom Of The Death Valley?

110 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 Bottom Of The Death Valley hard to play on drums?

57 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Bottom Of The Death Valley?

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 30, 38, 42, 46, 49, 50 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED