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Dying To Love · Bad Omens

EXERCISE 1 OF 59
Groove C -- Chorus
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BREAK
PART E
PART H
CHORUS
PART R
PART W
CHORUS 2
PART D
BREAK 2
PART AH
PART S13
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesCRHS10AH+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dying To Love on drums

152 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-38, toms through bars 39-40, hi-hat through bars 41-46, snare through bars 47-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-56, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 22 more places -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|
Dying To Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 16, 39, 40, 48, 52 and 20 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 -- C, D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part R -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part R -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part R and Part W -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part W and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dying To Love?

145 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 Dying To Love hard to play on drums?

46 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Dying To Love?

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 16, 39, 40, 48, 52 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED