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Dead But Pretty - IC3PEAK · IC3PEAK

EXERCISE 8 OF 29
Groove G -- Part G (a two-bar phrase)
36 / 74 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART C
PART E
PART F
PART G
CHORUS
PART C
BREAK
PART P
BREAK 2
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesICEFL+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dead But Pretty - IC3PEAK on drums

74 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 2:39 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
60/100

kick and crashes through bars 3-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-28, snare through bars 29-32, silence through bars 33-36 and snare through bars 37-44, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-12 and 69-74 -- 15.6% 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.......
HH |----o-------o-------o-------o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----x---------x-----|
Dead But Pretty - IC3PEAK -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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, I -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-21 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-38 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and the Break 2 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dead But Pretty - IC3PEAK?

112 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 But Pretty - IC3PEAK hard to play on drums?

60 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED