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Flower Of Death · Calamity

Flower Of Death · Calamity
EXERCISE 1 OF 35
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 38 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART K
PART O
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBKOAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Flower Of Death on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 1-32, toms through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-52, toms through bars 53-56, hi-hat through bars 57-92 and toms through bars 93-96, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-18 and 21-23, and 14 more places -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Flower Of Death -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 16, 19, 20, 24, 34, 35 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 81-111 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Flower Of Death?

150 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 Flower Of Death 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Flower Of Death?

8 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 16, 19, 20, 24, 34, 35 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED