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Desperate Pleasures · Every Time I Die

EXERCISE 15 OF 86
Groove K
38 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 86 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART L
PART D
PART G
PART L
PART T
PART Q
PART AE
CHORUS
BREAK 2
PART AO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesAHBAEQS12+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Desperate Pleasures on drums

129 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 3:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
60/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-23, snare through bars 24-32, ride through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-40 and snare through bars 41-47, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 79-85, 114-116 and 118-120, and 2 more places -- 17% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    80
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------x---------------|
SD |x-------------------------------|
BD |----x---x-----------------------|
Desperate Pleasures -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 8, 16, 18, 20, 22, 23 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- AM, D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-20 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 21-33 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-57 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part T -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Desperate Pleasures?

156 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 Desperate Pleasures hard to play on drums?

60 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Desperate Pleasures?

21 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 8, 16, 18, 20, 22, 23 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED