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Dying · Herbivora

Dying · Herbivora
EXERCISE 15 OF 68
Fill at bar 17
87 / 216 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART A
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART AQ
BREAK
OUTRO 2
9 groovesRS9ABAQ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dying on drums

216 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 180 BPM, 3:36 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-30, hi-hat through bars 31-59, toms through bars 60-90 and snare through bars 91-140, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46, 48 and 50, and 40 more places -- 21.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    62
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x---x---|
BD |x-x---x---x-|
Dying -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 3, 5, 9, 13, 15, 17 and 64 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- R, B -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AQ -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part AQ -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part A -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 43-95 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dying?

180 BPM, in 3/4, 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 hard to play on drums?

54 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

216 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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?

20 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 3, 5, 9, 13, 15, 17 and 64 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 216 BARS ANALYSED