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death crumbs [v1] · process: something

EXERCISE 6 OF 96
Groove U -- Part U
17 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 96 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART U
PART I
CHORUS
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART AG
CHORUS 3
PART AO
PART U
PART S12
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesMAOIUAG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 29
LAND · 29
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play death crumbs [v1] on drums

135 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 7:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
7:01
DIFFICULTY
50/100

ride through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-18, snare through bars 19-32, hi-hat through bars 33-39 and toms through bars 40-43, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 9 more places -- 11.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
death crumbs [v1] -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

29 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 55 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- M -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 1-33 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Bars 29-57 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part U and the Chorus 2 -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is death crumbs [v1]?

77 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 crumbs [v1] hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 7:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 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 crumbs [v1]?

29 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 55 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED