ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Deathcrush on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 152 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 121
LENGTH: 3:22
DIFFICULTY: 95/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-13, silence through bars 14-17, ride through bars 18-79, silence through bars 80-83 and ride through bars 84-115, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26, 28-32 and 34, and 13 more places -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    28                                               29
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------x-------x-------x-------|
RD |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----------------------------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------x-----------x-----x-------x-------x-------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--------------------------|

Deathcrush -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 10, 27, 33 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through the Break and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through Part D -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
Bars 11-26 -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
Through Part I and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Bars 26-79 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
and 2 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Deathcrush?

152 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 Deathcrush hard to play on drums?

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 86 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Deathcrush?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 10, 27, 33 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED