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Danse Macabre · Heaven Pierce Her

EXERCISE 14 OF 29
Groove O -- Part O
50 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART J
PART O
PART Q
BREAK
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK 2
7 groovesEJS6S9S1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Danse Macabre on drums

116 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-61, silence through bars 62-78, hi-hat through bars 79-102 and silence through bars 103-116.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-32, 34-36 and 38-40, and 3 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    30
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-xx|
Danse Macabre -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 17, 25, 29, 33, 45, 46 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- J, E -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 12 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 30-54 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part Q -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Danse Macabre?

160 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 Danse Macabre hard to play on drums?

63 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Danse Macabre?

6 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 17, 25, 29, 33, 45, 46 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED