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Death Valley Superstars · Murderdolls

EXERCISE 1 OF 39
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBFRFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Death Valley Superstars on drums

154 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:43 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
47/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-81, hi-hat through bars 82-89, snare through bars 90-121, hi-hat through bars 122-136 and snare through bars 137-154.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 26 more places -- 41.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- B -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 105-122 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Death Valley Superstars?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Death Valley Superstars hard to play on drums?

47 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Valley Superstars?

12 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED