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Cause of Death · Motionless In White

EXERCISE 1 OF 84
Groove M -- Chorus
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PART G
CHORUS
PART T
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART AB
PART AG
CHORUS 3
PART AQ
OUTRO
13 groovesMGAQDAP+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cause of Death on drums

152 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-32, snare through bars 33-45, toms through bars 46-48 and snare through bars 49-56, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37 and 41-43, and 10 more places -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x---x-x---|
Cause of Death -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 22, 24 and 37 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- M, B -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part T -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part T and Part V -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Cause of Death?

150 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 Cause of Death 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 Cause of Death?

21 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 22, 24 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED