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Deathbed Atheist · Norma Jean

EXERCISE 8 OF 30
Groove D
48 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART B
PART C
PART E
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART M
OUTRO
BREAK
9 groovesGS13BCM+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Deathbed Atheist on drums

133 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 140 BPM, 4:33 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
40/100

hi-hat through bars 3-22, snare through bars 23-56, hi-hat through bars 57-59, snare through bars 60-80, silence through bars 81-86 and snare through bars 87-98, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-22 -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a
HH |----------------o---|
SD |------x---------x---|
BD |x-x-------x---x-----|
HF |x---x---x---x-------|
Deathbed Atheist -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 102.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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, C -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 27-50 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 58-98 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Bars 97-103 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Deathbed Atheist?

140 BPM, in 5/4, 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 Deathbed Atheist hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Deathbed Atheist?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 102.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED