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DICE · Band-Maid

EXERCISE 4 OF 81
Groove AV -- Part AV
62 / 180 BARS COVERED
0 / 81 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AV
PART C
PART Q
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AV
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesGAYAHAJQ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play DICE on drums

180 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
60/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-33, ride through bars 34-42, hi-hat through bars 43-103, ride through bars 104-109 and hi-hat through bars 110-111, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 43-49, and 12 more places -- 32.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13 and 55 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AV -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 14-27 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is DICE?

180 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 DICE 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

180 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 DICE?

22 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13 and 55 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED