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Death Before Dishonor · Five Finger Death Punch

EXERCISE 20 OF 43
Join Part H to Part F (bars 43-45)
135 / 160 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART F
PART B
CHORUS
PART F
PART H
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART H
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEFHBS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Death Before Dishonor on drums

160 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-28, snare through bars 29-36, ride through bars 37-44, snare through bars 45-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-64, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-35, 45-51 and 65-71, and 4 more places -- 24% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Death Before Dishonor -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 36, 44, 52, 72, 80 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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, B -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-32 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part H -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-57 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 103-110 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 110-137 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Death Before Dishonor?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Death Before Dishonor hard to play on drums?

54 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 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 Before Dishonor?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 36, 44, 52, 72, 80 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED