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Dead Space · Harms Way

EXERCISE 26 OF 67
Groove R -- Part R
105 / 159 BARS COVERED
0 / 67 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R, PART U
PART F
PART H
PART R
PART U
PART Y
CHORUS
PART U
PART Y
CHORUS 2
PART AO
13 groovesABYUAOF+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dead Space on drums

159 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
50/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-38, hi-hat through bars 39-54, snare through bars 55-87, hi-hat through bars 88-111 and snare through bars 112-116, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 70-76, 78-84 and 125-131, and 1 more place -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    70               71
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-----x-|
BD |x-x---------x-x-|----------x-x---|
Dead Space -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 4, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 35 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- AB, Y -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Bars 18-32 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 33-39 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dead Space?

138 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 Space hard to play on drums?

50 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Space?

15 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 4, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED