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Deadweight · Disfear

Deadweight · Disfear
EXERCISE 8 OF 31
Groove D -- Part D
84 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesFAKDS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Deadweight on drums

107 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 2:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-12, hi-hat through bars 13-89, snare through bars 90-91, hi-hat through bars 92-102 and snare through bars 103-107.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 21-33, and 8 more places -- 67% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 16, 20, 34 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 7-66 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 71-92 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Deadweight?

145 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 Deadweight hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Deadweight?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 16, 20, 34 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED