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Evil Dead · Death

EXERCISE 11 OF 21
Run A1 · Part A (bars 1-18)
135 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFIACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Evil Dead on drums

141 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
66/100

hi-hat through bars 1-42, ride through bars 43-50, hi-hat through bars 51-58, ride through bars 59-66, hi-hat through bars 67-124 and ride through bars 125-132, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-33, 35-41 and 51-57, and 7 more places -- 51.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Evil Dead -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 26, 34, 42, 50, 58, 66 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-27 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-46 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Evil Dead?

138 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 Evil Dead hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 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 Evil Dead?

3 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 26, 34, 42, 50, 58, 66 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED