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Down With The Sickness (Live) · Disturbed

EXERCISE 27 OF 44
Join Part L to Break (bars 72-74)
73 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, BREAK
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
PART J
VERSE 2
PART L
BREAK
PART J
PART M
PART P
OUTRO
10 groovesDJGMB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Down With The Sickness (Live) on drums

119 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-12, toms through bars 13-24, hi-hat through bars 25-48, ride through bars 49-56, toms through bars 57-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-66, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 41-42, and 3 more places -- 16.2% 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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HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x--x|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Down With The Sickness (Live) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 40, 43, 44 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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, J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-36 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-58 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 55-73 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 72-86 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part M -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 83-111 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Down With The Sickness (Live)?

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 Down With The Sickness (Live) 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Down With The Sickness (Live)?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 40, 43, 44 and 7 more.

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