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Dead Girl Walking · Heathers: The Musical

EXERCISE 8 OF 45
Run B1 · Part B (bars 9-12)
35 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART H
PART AE
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesEMHJA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dead Girl Walking on drums

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 3:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
60/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-40, snare through bars 41-45, hi-hat through bars 46-62, ride through bars 63-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-67, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-16, 19-20 and 34-37, and 2 more places -- 14.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 56, 57, 61, 68, 69, 81 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- E, A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-21 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part H -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part J -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-34 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dead Girl Walking?

104 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Girl Walking hard to play on drums?

60 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 Girl Walking?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 56, 57, 61, 68, 69, 81 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED