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EXERCISE 26 OF 39
6-bar fill at bar 53
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0 / 39 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGDJFS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Deadfall on drums

84 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 2:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:08
DIFFICULTY
94/100

snare through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-13, ride through bars 14-20, toms through bars 21-23 and hi-hat through bars 24-34, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 35-37, and 5 more places -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x--------x--------x-----------------------------|
RD |------------------------x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--------x-----x--------x--x--------x--x--------|
Deadfall -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 24, 25, 26, 45, 49, 53 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-12 -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 27-47 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Deadfall?

156 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Deadfall hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 2:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Deadfall?

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 24, 25, 26, 45, 49, 53 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED