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Die Slow · Sunami

EXERCISE 5 OF 50
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
22 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART F
BREAK
PART I
PART K
PART S6
PART P
PART Q
12 groovesBIQFP+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Die Slow on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
50/100

snare through bar 1, toms through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, silence through bars 18-24, hi-hat through bars 25-30 and snare through bars 31-34, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48-55 -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    48
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Die Slow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 9, 31, 35, 39, 44 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- P -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q, V -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-25 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part I -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 31-48 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 40-64 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Die Slow?

120 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 Slow hard to play on drums?

50 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Slow?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 9, 31, 35, 39, 44 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED