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Days Lie Dormant · Twenty One Pilots

EXERCISE 1 OF 54
Groove C -- Part C
0 / 143 BARS COVERED
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PART C
CHORUS
PART P
PART C
PART D
PART B
PART V
BREAK 2
PART X
PART S12
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesHDCS9P+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Days Lie Dormant on drums

143 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bar 1, ride through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-15, ride through bars 16-19, toms through bars 20-21 and hi-hat through bars 22-27, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 7 and 39, and 20 more places -- 18.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Days Lie Dormant -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 16, 17, 18 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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, B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Bars 44-70 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Days Lie Dormant?

175 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 Days Lie Dormant hard to play on drums?

52 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Days Lie Dormant?

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 16, 17, 18 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED