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Die Mf Die · Dope

EXERCISE 16 OF 34
Join Part G to Chorus (bars 27-29)
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0 / 34 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, CHORUS
PART C
PART E
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHEGCL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Die Mf Die on drums

92 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-6, toms through bars 7-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28, toms through bars 29-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-48, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-39 and 53-55, and 4 more places -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----------x---|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o---o-|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-x--x--x-x-----|
Die Mf Die -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 16, 20, 32, 44, 52, 65 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- J, G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-33 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 57-89 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 61-86 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Die Mf Die?

126 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 Mf Die hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Mf Die?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 16, 20, 32, 44, 52, 65 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED