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Dead As Shit · Sanguisugabogg

EXERCISE 24 OF 28
14-bar fill at bar 48
39 / 70 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART D
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesLDCS5S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dead As Shit on drums

70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
83/100

silence through bars 1-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-16, hi-hat through bars 17-26, ride through bars 27-28, hi-hat through bars 29-30 and ride through bars 31-34, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15 -- 12.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HF |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Dead As Shit -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 16, 20, 25, 27, 28, 30 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-31 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Dead As Shit?

80 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 Dead As Shit hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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 Dead As Shit?

7 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 16, 20, 25, 27, 28, 30 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED