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Dead Or Life · AA Le Composer

EXERCISE 4 OF 26
Groove F -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
16 / 75 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS
PART Y
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesFYDS5PFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dead Or Life on drums

75 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 200 BPM, 1:41 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
1:41
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, snare through bars 21-23, toms through bars 24-25, hi-hat through bars 26-37, snare through bars 38-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-67, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 44, 46 and 48-49, and 1 more place -- 22.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    44
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a
CC |x---x---------------|
HH |--------o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---xx--xx--x-|
Dead Or Life -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- Y -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dead Or Life?

200 BPM, in 5/4, 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 Or Life hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 1:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 10 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Or Life?

4 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED