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Dead Upon Dawn · Dead Witness

Dead Upon Dawn · Dead Witness
EXERCISE 28 OF 44
Groove L -- Part L (a two-bar phrase)
117 / 146 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART L
PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHBLRF+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dead Upon Dawn on drums

146 bars at 206 BPM -- fast, and 2:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
206 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
58/100

snare through bars 1-36, hi-hat through bars 37-51, toms through bars 52-89, kick and crashes through bars 90-92, toms through bars 93-97 and ride through bars 98-146.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-38, 40-42 and 44-46, and 4 more places -- 41% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Dead Upon Dawn -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 20, 23, 32, 35, 39, 51 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- H, B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part S2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-39 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 73-98 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dead Upon Dawn?

206 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 Upon Dawn hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 Upon Dawn?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 20, 23, 32, 35, 39, 51 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED