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Dead Omens · MASCAERA

Dead Omens · MASCAERA
EXERCISE 12 OF 50
Groove B -- Part B (a two-bar phrase)
41 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART P
PART S
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesGSAEPS8+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dead Omens on drums

103 bars at 213 BPM -- fast, and 1:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
213 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
1:46
DIFFICULTY
60/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-12, 15-16 and 72-73, and 5 more places -- 11% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11               12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|--------o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|x-x-x-x-x---x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x---x---x-|
Dead Omens -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 2, 5, 6, 16, 18, 20 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- G, AE -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part S2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 5-30 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part P and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part S -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dead Omens?

213 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 Omens 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 1:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 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 Omens?

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 2, 5, 6, 16, 18, 20 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED