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Fear of Dying · Jack Off Jill

EXERCISE 19 OF 32
Groove J -- Part J (a two-bar phrase)
103 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHLFJCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fear of Dying on drums

126 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 2:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
52/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, ride through bars 26-37, hi-hat through bars 38-39 and ride through bars 40-41, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-56, 74 and 78, and 3 more places -- 27% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x-------x-------|
BD |------x---x---x-|
Fear of Dying -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 9 and 126.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- L, H -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 54-91 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Fear of Dying?

188 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 Fear of Dying hard to play on drums?

52 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Fear of Dying?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 9 and 126.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED