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Death Cradle · Severed Flesh

Death Cradle · Severed Flesh
EXERCISE 5 OF 47
Groove G -- Part G
30 / 178 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART S9, CHORUS 2
PART G
PART H
PART G
PART S9
CHORUS
PART T
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
11 groovesFTGNL+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Death Cradle on drums

178 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
50/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-41, ride through bars 42-58, silence through bars 59-61 and kick and crashes through bars 62-65, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 66-72 and 74-79, and 3 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    67
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Death Cradle -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 33, 73, 81, 141 and 149.

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 -- F -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, T -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-13 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 28-34 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Bars 46-58 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Death Cradle?

210 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 Cradle hard to play on drums?

50 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Cradle?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 33, 73, 81, 141 and 149.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED