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Death and Romance · Magdalena Bay

Death and Romance · Magdalena Bay
EXERCISE 1 OF 50
Groove E -- Chorus
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0 / 50 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
PART BD
BREAK 3
12 groovesECAYS13S6+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Death and Romance on drums

139 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 5:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
5:14
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-24, ride through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-32, ride through bars 33-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-73, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 18, and 13 more places -- 13.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x----x--x--x|
BD |-----xxx--x--x--|
Death and Romance -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- E, F -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-50 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Bars 31-75 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 25-57 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Death and Romance?

106 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 Romance hard to play on drums?

61 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 5:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Death and Romance?

6 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED