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Deadweight · I Prevail

EXERCISE 19 OF 39
Groove K
54 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART C
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesLHPCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Deadweight on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-11, toms through bars 12-13, snare through bars 14-20, toms through bars 21-23 and snare through bars 24-33, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 36-38, and 1 more place -- 16.2% 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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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-x---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

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 9, 12, 13, 17, 27, 31 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 26-39 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 36-51 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Deadweight?

105 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Deadweight?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 9, 12, 13, 17, 27, 31 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED