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Fingers Like Daggers · After The Burial

EXERCISE 1 OF 31
Groove C -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
PART J
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCTLNS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fingers Like Daggers on drums

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 3:39 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-31, snare through bars 32-35, kick and crashes through bars 36-37 and toms through bars 38-41, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-24 -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |X-------x-------X-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |X---------xxx-x-X--X--x-xxx-xxx-|
Fingers Like Daggers -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T, L -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 32-49 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 36-42 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 40-53 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Fingers Like Daggers?

81 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Fingers Like Daggers hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Fingers Like Daggers?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED