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Dead Mtv Unplugged · Zoe

EXERCISE 16 OF 17
Run B2 · Outro 2 (bars 86-107)
107 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesABCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dead Mtv Unplugged on drums

107 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
43/100

toms through bars 1-44, hi-hat through bars 45-60, toms through bars 61-68, ride through bars 69-76, toms through bars 77-84 and hi-hat through bars 85-107.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-44, 61-68 and 77-84 -- 56.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x-------x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
FT |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-------|
Dead Mtv Unplugged -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- A, B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 42-65 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 74-101 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Dead Mtv Unplugged?

122 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Mtv Unplugged hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED