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EVEN IF IT KILLS ME · Papa Roach

EXERCISE 1 OF 56
Groove E -- Chorus
0 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 30 BARS LIT
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART V
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesEVNDA+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play EVEN IF IT KILLS ME on drums

136 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 3:28 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom 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
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-3, kick and crashes through bars 4-5, silence through bars 6-7, kick and crashes through bars 8-9, silence through bars 10-11 and kick and crashes through bars 12-13, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 27 and 29, and 25 more places -- 24.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 28, 32, 36, 38, 48, 56 and 20 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 -- E, N -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 38-65 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 49-81 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 79-105 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Break 9 and the Chorus 4 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is EVEN IF IT KILLS ME?

157 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 EVEN IF IT KILLS ME 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 EVEN IF IT KILLS ME?

14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 28, 32, 36, 38, 48, 56 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED