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Death Knell · Ghost

EXERCISE 4 OF 45
Groove E -- Part E
52 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, OUTRO 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART E
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART O
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCEAIT+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Death Knell on drums

143 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, ride through bars 25-40, hi-hat through bars 41-56, ride through bars 57-68, kick and crashes through bars 69-71 and hi-hat through bars 72-93, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-32, 57-68 and 112-119 -- 19.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25               26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|------------x---|
RD |----x---x---x---|x---x---x-------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x-----|
Death Knell -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 34, 36, 38, 69, 70, 71 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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, A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 29-44 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 41-72 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part T -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 96-143 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Death Knell?

130 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 Knell hard to play on drums?

48 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Knell?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 34, 36, 38, 69, 70, 71 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED