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Dead Asleep · Mauled

EXERCISE 8 OF 82
Fill at bar 11 and 15 (a small one)
35 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 82 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART F
PART M
PART J
PART T
PART W
CHORUS 2
PART S12
PART J
PART T
PART AI
OUTRO
13 groovesDTJAMAI+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dead Asleep on drums

140 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
45/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-9, snare through bars 10-35, hi-hat through bars 36-42, snare through bars 43-63 and hi-hat through bars 64-66, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-45, 47-49 and 100-106 -- 9.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    43
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Dead Asleep -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 9, 11, 13, 15, 26, 31 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- T -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-14 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 11 minutes.
  5. Bars 6-72 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 4-24 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dead Asleep?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Asleep hard to play on drums?

45 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?

140 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 16 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 Dead Asleep?

18 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 9, 11, 13, 15, 26, 31 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED