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Future Worth Dying For · I Promised The World

EXERCISE 16 OF 61
Join Chorus to Part L (bars 39-41)
105 / 177 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART L
CHORUS
PART L
PART S
PART T
PART L
PART AC
OUTRO
14 groovesEMSACL+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Future Worth Dying For on drums

177 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 4:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-34, snare through bars 35-43, hi-hat through bars 44-53 and silence through bars 54-56, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 45, 57 and 59, and 5 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    139              140
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-----x-|
BD |x-----xx----xxx-|--xxx-----xxx---|
Future Worth Dying For -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 34, 42, 44, 46, 50, 56 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- M, E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-91 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-47 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 45-68 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Future Worth Dying For?

154 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 Future Worth Dying For hard to play on drums?

49 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Future Worth Dying For?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 34, 42, 44, 46, 50, 56 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED