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Death · Dark Moor

EXERCISE 32 OF 83
Run I2 · Part I (bars 81-88)
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0 / 83 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART I
CHORUS 3
13 groovesCDEIK+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 1
JOIN · 19
LINK · 9
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Death on drums

201 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 4:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
201
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
73/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, ride through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-48, ride through bars 49-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-88, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 55 and 57-64, and 4 more places -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 32, 40, 48, 56, 88, 96 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-20 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 53-89 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 81-97 -- 4 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Death?

175 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 hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

201 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 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?

17 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 32, 40, 48, 56, 88, 96 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 201 BARS ANALYSED