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Dead Butterflies · Architects

EXERCISE 11 OF 31
Join Chorus to Part S4 (bars 17-19)
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0 / 31 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART S4
PART B
CHORUS
PART S4
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART S8
PART R
PART S10
OUTRO
7 groovesFRBS10S4+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dead Butterflies on drums

119 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
50/100

toms through bars 3-10, snare through bars 11-19, silence through bars 20-26, snare through bars 27-34, ride through bars 35-42 and toms through bars 43-49, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 14 and 16, and 15 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |----x-x---x---x-|
Dead Butterflies -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 18, 34, 58 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- G, R -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-19 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-83 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 89-116 -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Dead Butterflies?

125 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 Butterflies hard to play on drums?

50 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Butterflies?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 18, 34, 58 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED