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Dead Bury Their Dead · Arch Enemy

EXERCISE 13 OF 54
Run C1 · Part C (bars 5-8)
62 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
CHORUS
PART I
PART I
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART Z
CHORUS 3
11 groovesEIRKO+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 3
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dead Bury Their Dead on drums

108 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
85/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-7, snare through bars 8-18, toms through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28 and ride through bars 29-32, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 73-79 and 89-95 -- 20.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Dead Bury Their Dead -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 28, 40, 52, 88 and 108.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-9 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-21 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part I and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dead Bury Their Dead?

110 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 Bury Their Dead hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 15 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 Dead Bury Their Dead?

6 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 28, 40, 52, 88 and 108.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED