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Death · Slaughter To Prevail

EXERCISE 1 OF 77
Groove N -- Part N
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0 / 77 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART N
PART B
CHORUS
PART AC
PART N
PART AH
PART BE
PART S19
OUTRO
20 groovesGACBEAHB+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
SECTION · 18
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Death on drums

123 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
78/100

snare through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-20, hi-hat through bars 21-30, snare through bars 31-54, ride through bars 55-67 and snare through bars 68-86, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 28 and 58-60 -- 4.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
RD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Death -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 13, 20, 25, 26, 27 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- N -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BP -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 4-15 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 33-40 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Death?

110 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 hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Death?

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 13, 20, 25, 26, 27 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED