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Dead End · Nocrash

Dead End · Nocrash
EXERCISE 14 OF 50
Join Chorus to Part G (bars 15-17)
92 / 199 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART G
CHORUS
PART G
PART N
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
PART R
OUTRO
10 groovesANRGS9+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dead End on drums

199 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 4:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
199
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
59/100

snare through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-33, snare through bars 34-74, hi-hat through bars 75-106, snare through bars 107-122 and silence through bars 123-154, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-56, 110 and 114, and 4 more places -- 20.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |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

9 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 12, 14, 16 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- N, A -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part G and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 57-146 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 41-84 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dead End?

195 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?

59 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

199 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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?

9 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 12, 14, 16 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 199 BARS ANALYSED