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Dead End · Her Last Sight feat. The Curse Within

Dead End · Her Last Sight feat. The Curse Within
EXERCISE 28 OF 122
Join Part I to Part O (bars 18-20)
100 / 219 BARS COVERED
0 / 122 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, PART O
PART I
PART O
PART Y
PART AG
CHORUS
PART AG
PART BE
PART BJ
OUTRO 2
13 groovesANAGIBJBE+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 27
LAND · 27
RUN · 3
JOIN · 17
LINK · 13
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dead End on drums

219 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
219
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
56/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-18, ride through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-32 and snare through bars 33-64, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 49-51, 53-55 and 57-59, and 6 more places -- 10.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    49               50
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x---x-x---x-x---|x-x---x-----x-x-|
Dead End -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

27 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 2, 7, 8, 12, 15, 16 and 48 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 94 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 -- AG, I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AN -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-178 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 15-124 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 16-26 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 20-35 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dead End?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Dead End hard to play on drums?

56 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

219 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 94 exercises over 25 sittings, about 27 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 End?

27 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 2, 7, 8, 12, 15, 16 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 219 BARS ANALYSED