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Dead · Zoe

EXERCISE 6 OF 27
Run B1 · Part B (bars 2-25)
104 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART G
PART S5
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBGS5S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dead on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:34 of playing, on crash, ride, 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
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
46/100

snare through bars 2-25, ride through bars 26-41, toms through bars 42-50, silence through bars 51-57, snare through bars 58-73 and ride through bars 74-89, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-32, 34-40 and 74-80, and 7 more places -- 46.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    26               27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-x-----x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|x-------x-x-----|
Dead -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 25, 33, 49, 73, 81, 97 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- D, B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 38-50 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 48-99 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Dead?

120 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 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 25, 33, 49, 73, 81, 97 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED