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Dead Eternity · In Flames

EXERCISE 21 OF 56
Join Chorus to Part I (bars 65-67)
113 / 171 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART I
PART C
PART S3
CHORUS
PART I
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFHCYS3+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 10
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dead Eternity on drums

171 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 4:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
90/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-25, silence through bars 26-44, hi-hat through bars 45-110, ride through bars 111-118 and hi-hat through bars 119-142, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 62-64, 66-68 and 76, and 7 more places -- 22.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    63
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------x-----x-----------------------|
Dead Eternity -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 44, 61, 69, 73, 77, 85 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-62 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 63-86 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dead Eternity?

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

Is Dead Eternity hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 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 Eternity?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 44, 61, 69, 73, 77, 85 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED