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Death of a strawberry drum · Dance Gavin Dance

EXERCISE 4 OF 52
Groove P -- Outro (a two-bar phrase)
38 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART N
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesLNDZB+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Death of a strawberry drum on drums

125 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-16, ride through bars 17-20, snare through bars 21-37 and silence through bars 38-42, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-35 and 81-91 -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 12, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- L, N -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-55 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 59-71 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Death of a strawberry drum?

125 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 strawberry drum hard to play on drums?

49 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 strawberry drum?

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 12, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED