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EXERCISE 1 OF 50
Groove D -- Chorus 2
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COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART P
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDBPAN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Death and Glitz on drums

118 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-47, snare through bars 48-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-96, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-21, 23-24 and 41-43, and 9 more places -- 29.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 16, 40, 44, 47, 53, 55 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 21-41 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-67 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 63-75 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and the Chorus 4 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 4 and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Death and Glitz?

124 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 Death and Glitz hard to play on drums?

56 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 Death and Glitz?

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 16, 40, 44, 47, 53, 55 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED