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DEAD WEIGHT · Southpaw FLHC

DEAD WEIGHT · Southpaw FLHC
EXERCISE 1 OF 51
Groove B -- Part B
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0 / 51 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT
PART S2
CHORUS
PART H
PART N
PART B
PART H
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDBADHN+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play DEAD WEIGHT on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 3:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-45, silence through bars 46-48, hi-hat through bars 49-53 and snare through bars 54-56, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-12 and 49-56, and 3 more places -- 16.7% 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---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
DEAD WEIGHT -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 28, 32, 33, 34, 35, 43 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- B, D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Bars 38-84 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 36-45 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 86-93 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is DEAD WEIGHT?

142 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?

55 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 8 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 WEIGHT?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 28, 32, 33, 34, 35, 43 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED