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Death Cup · Mom Jeans.

EXERCISE 20 OF 50
Fill at bar 71 (a small one)
158 / 193 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART I
CHORUS
PART I
PART M
PART G
PART G
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBIGMV+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Death Cup on drums

193 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 129 BPM, 4:29 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
62/100

ride through bars 1-54, hi-hat through bars 55-56, ride through bars 57-62, hi-hat through bars 63-104, ride through bars 105-110 and hi-hat through bars 111-112, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 35 more places -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x---x-----x-|
Death Cup -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 15, 16, 48, 62, 64, 71 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- B, I -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 52-113 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 90-113 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 122-146 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Death Cup?

129 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Cup hard to play on drums?

62 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

193 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Cup?

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 15, 16, 48, 62, 64, 71 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED