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Bring Me To Life · Evanescence

EXERCISE 6 OF 36
Groove D
42 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART L
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCHELS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bring Me To Life on drums

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-13, hi-hat through bars 14-22, ride through bars 23-30, hi-hat through bars 31-38 and ride through bars 39-46, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 23-25, and 3 more places -- 23.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---------------|
RD |--x-X-x-X-x-X-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |X--x---x--x-----|
Bring Me To Life -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 26, 30, 34, 37, 38 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- C, E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 9-36 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-55 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 51-62 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Bring Me To Life?

96 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 Bring Me To Life hard to play on drums?

60 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 Bring Me To Life?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 26, 30, 34, 37, 38 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED