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Death Roll · Wage War

EXERCISE 12 OF 48
4-bar fill at bar 24
48 / 92 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART AG
OUTRO 2
12 groovesBAAKAGI+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Death Roll on drums

92 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
78/100

snare through bars 3-13, kick and crashes through bars 14-15, snare through bars 16-25, toms through bars 26-27, snare through bars 28-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-50, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-34, 65-71 and 85, and 1 more place -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    28
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------------|
Death Roll -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 11, 13, 19, 24, 25, 26 and 9 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 -- Q, B -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-20 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 20-47 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part U -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part U and Part X -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Death Roll?

122 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Roll hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Roll?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 11, 13, 19, 24, 25, 26 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED