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Death Of A Bachelor · Panic! At The Disco

EXERCISE 1 OF 20
Groove B -- Chorus
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PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART G
BREAK
6 groovesBCGS7S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Death Of A Bachelor on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

26 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
26/100

toms through bars 2-25, snare through bars 26-41, toms through bars 42-65, snare through bars 66-81, toms through bars 82-97 and silence through bars 98-113.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 6 and 10, and 31 more places -- 35.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--------g-------|
FT |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|
Death Of A Bachelor -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 113.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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, C -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 76-98 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Death Of A Bachelor?

140 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 Of A Bachelor hard to play on drums?

26 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Death Of A Bachelor?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 113.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED