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Dead Heat Pulse · Heaven Pierce Her

Dead Heat Pulse · Heaven Pierce Her
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EXERCISE 6 OF 47
Groove B -- Part B
34 / 86 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART K
PART O
PART S
OUTRO
BREAK
11 groovesIKS11FD+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dead Heat Pulse on drums

86 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
80/100

ride through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-25, ride through bars 26-41, hi-hat through bars 42-58, toms through bars 59-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-75, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-41 -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26                                               27
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|x-----------------------------------------------|
RD |--------x-------x---------------x-------x-------|--------x-------x-----------------------x-------|
HH |------------x-----------------------x-----------|------------x-------------------------------x---|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-------x---------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-x-x---x-x-x---x---|
Dead Heat Pulse -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 44, 50, 58, 62, 66 and 70.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Bars 3-9 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dead Heat Pulse?

140 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 Heat Pulse hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 86 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 16 sittings, about 23 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 Heat Pulse?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 44, 50, 58, 62, 66 and 70.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED