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Die By The Sword · DragonForce

EXERCISE 13 OF 88
Join Part A to Part C (bars 3-5)
88 / 182 BARS COVERED
0 / 88 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART C
PART A
PART C
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART L
CHORUS 4
PART S13
PART AB
PART AK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesELABIS13+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 25
LAND · 25
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Die By The Sword on drums

182 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
80/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-8, ride through bars 9-14, hi-hat through bars 15-26, ride through bars 27-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-38, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 27-29 and 39-40, and 10 more places -- 21.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Die By The Sword -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

25 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 13, 17, 18 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 3-14 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 11-27 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Die By The Sword?

160 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 Die By The Sword hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

182 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 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, 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 Die By The Sword?

25 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 13, 17, 18 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 182 BARS ANALYSED