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Dying Breed · Five Finger Death Punch

EXERCISE 14 OF 53
Groove A -- Part A
101 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART S10
PART A
PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART M
PART B
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART S10
PART M
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
8 groovesIBFMS10+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dying Breed on drums

140 bars at 196 BPM -- fast, and 2:51 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
196 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, snare through bars 25-39, toms through bars 40-41, snare through bars 42-49, hi-hat through bars 50-65 and snare through bars 66-98, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-39 and 66-72, and 3 more places -- 30.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Dying Breed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 32, 40 and 23 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 -- I -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-83 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Bars 40-99 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 42-69 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dying Breed?

196 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Dying Breed hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 2:51 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, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Dying Breed?

11 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 32, 40 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED