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Dead End Friends · Them Crooked Vultures

EXERCISE 19 OF 46
Fill at bar 56, 83 and 103 (a small one)
100 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART T, OUTRO
PART D
CHORUS
PART P
PART T
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGTPDN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dead End Friends on drums

126 bars of 4/4 at 151 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
151 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-9, silence through bars 10-12, hi-hat through bars 13-71, ride through bars 72-73 and snare through bars 74-75, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-15, 17-23 and 25-32, and 9 more places -- 40.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13               14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|x-----x-x-x---x-|
Dead End Friends -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 12, 24, 38 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T, K (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-19 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 72-88 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dead End Friends?

151 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 End Friends hard to play on drums?

57 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 End Friends?

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 12, 24, 38 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED