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Daggers · We Came As Romans

EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove C -- Part C
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PART C
PART D
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART M
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART S15
PART AC
OUTRO
15 groovesJCMACD+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Daggers on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
60/100

toms through bar 1, silence through bars 2-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-44, hi-hat through bars 45-60 and snare through bars 61-77, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 10 more places -- 12.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-x-x-------x-----x-----x-----|
Daggers -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 56, 60, 64 and 1 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 -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-36 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 50-64 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Bars 75-88 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Daggers?

148 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Daggers 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Daggers?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 56, 60, 64 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED