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Deathwish · Within Destruction

Deathwish · Within Destruction
EXERCISE 9 OF 81
4-bar fill at bar 1
55 / 160 BARS COVERED
0 / 81 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART E
PART I
CHORUS
PART S
PART W
CHORUS 3
PART W
PART AB
PART AI
OUTRO
16 groovesNWIEAI+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 4
JOIN · 15
LINK · 7
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Deathwish on drums

160 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
69/100

toms through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-22, hi-hat through bars 23-38, snare through bars 39-46, hi-hat through bars 47-50 and snare through bars 51-54, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-25, 27-29 and 47-50, and 3 more places -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 22 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part E and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 30-50 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Deathwish?

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

Is Deathwish hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Deathwish?

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 22 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED