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Die, Die My Darling · Misfits

EXERCISE 9 OF 23
2-bar fill at bar 18
121 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART C
PART D
PART C
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesACDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Die, Die My Darling on drums

126 bars at 169 BPM -- fast, and 2:59 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
169 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
65/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 8 and 12-14, and 30 more places -- 46.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Die, Die My Darling -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 18, 19 and 96.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-58 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-45 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 44-97 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Die, Die My Darling?

169 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, Die My Darling hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Die, Die My Darling?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 18, 19 and 96.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED