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Die For You · Alice Cooper

EXERCISE 37 OF 49
Join Part W to Part P (bars 76-78)
74 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART W, PART P
COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART W
PART P
PART S9
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGDS1PR+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Die For You on drums

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-31, ride through bars 32-43, hi-hat through bars 44-57, ride through bars 58-82 and silence through bars 83-89, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-34, 36-38 and 40-42, and 4 more places -- 23.2% 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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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---------|
Die For You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 25, 35, 39, 43, 51, 61 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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, D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 72-78 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 76-95 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Die For You?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Die For You hard to play on drums?

53 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 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 For You?

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 25, 35, 39, 43, 51, 61 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED