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Death Squad · Sacred Reich

Death Squad · Sacred Reich
EXERCISE 28 OF 68
Fill at bar 62 (a small one)
144 / 201 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
PART C
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesUCAALG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Death Squad on drums

201 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
201
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-78, toms through bars 79-80, hi-hat through bars 81-88, ride through bars 89-90 and snare through bars 91-98, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 73-78, 81-87 and 99-105, and 3 more places -- 20.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    73
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Death Squad -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 22, 32, 33, 62, 64 and 20 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 -- U -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA, C -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-150 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-129 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 55-66 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Death Squad?

150 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 Squad 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 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

201 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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 Squad?

14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 22, 32, 33, 62, 64 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 201 BARS ANALYSED