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Dead Weight · Brkn Love

Dead Weight · Brkn Love
EXERCISE 36 OF 54
Groove S -- Outro
63 / 86 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART J
PART G
PART J
PART B
PART S8
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDJBSG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dead Weight on drums

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 3:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
46/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-27, snare through bars 28-29, hi-hat through bars 30-47 and kick and crashes through bars 48-51, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 40-42, and 1 more place -- 14.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 12, 13, 22, 30, 34 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- J, G -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 44-60 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part S8 and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dead Weight?

97 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 Weight hard to play on drums?

46 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Dead Weight?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 12, 13, 22, 30, 34 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED