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Death Pierce Me · Silencer

EXERCISE 1 OF 70
Groove P -- Chorus
0 / 337 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 73 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART U
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART AA
PART S14
PART U
CHORUS 5
PART AK
12 groovesPUS14AAB+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Death Pierce Me on drums

337 bars, 19:47, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
337
LENGTH
19:47
DIFFICULTY
62/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-9, snare through bars 10-15, toms through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25 and snare through bars 26-27, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 44-47, 49-51 and 54-57, and 8 more places -- 27% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 5, 10, 15, 17, 19 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- P -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U, AA -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-151 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 10 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 1-80 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 76-140 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 152-180 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Death Pierce Me?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Death Pierce Me hard to play on drums?

62 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 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

337 bars, about 19:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 13 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 Pierce Me?

16 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 5, 10, 15, 17, 19 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 337 BARS ANALYSED