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Fake Your Own Death · Make Them Suffer

EXERCISE 24 OF 51
Groove Q -- Part Q (a two-bar phrase)
70 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q
CHORUS
PART F
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART Q
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCNFKQ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fake Your Own Death on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, snare through bars 29-30, hi-hat through bars 31-35 and snare through bars 36-44, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 29-31, and 3 more places -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-xxxxxx--xxxxxx|
Fake Your Own Death -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-40 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 46-65 -- 9 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Bars 61-73 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Fake Your Own Death?

135 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 Fake Your Own Death hard to play on drums?

59 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Fake Your Own Death?

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED