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dancing with the dead pw · Powerwolf

EXERCISE 33 OF 43
Join Part T to Chorus 4 (bars 75-77)
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0 / 43 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART T, CHORUS 4
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART T
CHORUS 4
PART J
OUTRO
10 groovesFMJTI+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play dancing with the dead pw on drums

166 bars at 166 BPM -- fast, and 4:00 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
166 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-11, toms through bars 12-13, snare through bars 14-21, hi-hat through bars 22-34 and toms through bars 35-45, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 46-53, and 17 more places -- 45.3% 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
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
dancing with the dead pw -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 12, 13, 17, 44, 45, 54 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- F, J -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Bars 30-46 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 44-57 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part R and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part T and the Chorus 4 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is dancing with the dead pw?

166 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is dancing with the dead pw hard to play on drums?

46 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 dancing with the dead pw?

6 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 12, 13, 17, 44, 45, 54 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED