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Death Of Me · Dan Byrne

Death Of Me · Dan Byrne
EXERCISE 1 OF 53
Groove G -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART B
PART S4
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesGJMBN+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Death Of Me on drums

141 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 3:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-29, silence through bars 30-36, hi-hat through bars 37-53, ride through bars 54-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-74, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-39, 41-43 and 45-47, and 11 more places -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------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

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 20, 28, 40, 44, 52, 60 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- G -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, N -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-93 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-78 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 61-91 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Death Of Me?

143 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Me?

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 20, 28, 40, 44, 52, 60 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED