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Death of Me. · Amira Elfeky

EXERCISE 25 OF 26
Fill at bar 76
76 / 76 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART I
BREAK
OUTRO
6 groovesDBS1S7I+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Death of Me. on drums

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-44, snare through bars 45-49 and toms through bars 50-51, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-23, 25-28 and 37-43, and 2 more places -- 50% 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 |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x----x--x---|
BD |x-x----x--x-----|
Death of Me. -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 24, 36, 44, 48, 60, 68 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- D, B -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Bars 19-37 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 32-45 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 5 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Death of Me.?

96 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 Me. hard to play on drums?

50 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Me.?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 24, 36, 44, 48, 60, 68 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED