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『first death』 · TK from Ling tosite sigure

『first death』 · TK from Ling tosite sigure
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EXERCISE 25 OF 41
Join Part R to Part U (bars 43-45)
53 / 60 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R, PART U
CHORUS
PART R
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesARXUFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 『first death』 on drums

60 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 1:28 of it without a break -- on crash, 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
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
1:28
DIFFICULTY
66/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-35 and toms through bars 36-40, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 17, and 3 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |oooooooooooooooo|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x-----|
『first 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, 15, 16, 24, 32 and 18 more.

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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E (a two-bar phrase), R -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part R and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 43-49 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 『first death』?

164 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 『first death』 hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 1:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 『first death』?

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 8, 15, 16, 24, 32 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 60 BARS ANALYSED