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Dead To Me · Solar Eruption

Dead To Me · Solar Eruption
EXERCISE 22 OF 72
2-bar fill at bar 47
78 / 160 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART S2
PART S
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesCSS13S2AF+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dead To Me on drums

151 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
77/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-50, silence through bars 51-74, kick and crashes through bars 75-95, snare through bars 96-135 and silence through bars 136-137, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 15 more places -- 25.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Dead To Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 20, 24, 26 and 36 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part S2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 50-69 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dead To Me?

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 To Me hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 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 To Me?

21 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 20, 24, 26 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED