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Die For You · From Ashes To New

EXERCISE 4 OF 29
Groove C -- Verse
22 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE, VERSE 2
VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
PART B
CHORUS 2
BREAK 3
PART B
OUTRO
8 groovesDCBS9S1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Die For You on drums

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:25 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-3, kick and crashes through bars 4-5, hi-hat through bars 6-19, snare through bars 20-23, silence through bars 24-25 and hi-hat through bars 26-41, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-18, 20-22 and 38-40, and 7 more places -- 32.3% 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
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----xx--x-----|
Die For You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 19, 37, 41, 75 and 77.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 4-23 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-38 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 34-60 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 59-76 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Die For You?

90 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?

54 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Die For You?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 19, 37, 41, 75 and 77.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED