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Death, be not proud · Nehemiah Keliihananui

Death, be not proud · Nehemiah Keliihananui
EXERCISE 8 OF 56
Join Part A to Break (bars 15-17)
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0 / 56 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, BREAK
PART A
BREAK
CHORUS
PART N
PART N
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesFANAMI+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 1
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Death, be not proud on drums

127 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
72/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, silence through bars 17-25, snare through bars 26-30, hi-hat through bars 31-50, snare through bars 51-56 and silence through bars 57-58, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-35, 41-43 and 78-81, and 4 more places -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    78
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|
Death, be not proud -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 50, 66, 77, 86, 90, 108 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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, A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-27 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and the Break 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-64 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 63-71 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 69-75 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Death, be not proud?

120 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 Death, be not proud hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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, be not proud?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 50, 66, 77, 86, 90, 108 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED