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Dirge · Death In Vegas

Dirge · Death In Vegas
EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove H -- Outro 2
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COUNT-IN
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHBS1DCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dirge on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
5:29
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-132 and snare through bars 133-137.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 69-71, 73-79 and 81-83, and 7 more places -- 48.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x--x|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Dirge -- 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 64, 68 and 72.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- H, B -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 43-65 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Dirge?

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 Dirge hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 5:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Dirge?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 64, 68 and 72.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED