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Death Of A Martian · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 7 OF 37
Groove A
75 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBFS5MFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Death Of A Martian on drums

122 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
44/100

hi-hat through bars 1-28, ride through bars 29-44, hi-hat through bars 45-68, ride through bars 69-86, silence through bars 87-89 and snare through bars 90-120, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-7, 9-26 and 45-47, and 1 more place -- 37% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 28, 36, 48, 68, 76 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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, F -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 1-48 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 68-98 -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Death Of A Martian?

111 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 Martian hard to play on drums?

44 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 6 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 Of A Martian?

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 28, 36, 48, 68, 76 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED