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EXERCISE 4 OF 23
Hold Groove A for 8 bars -- Part A (bars 1-8)
148 / 238 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART F
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
6 groovesEAFS7S9+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Good To Know That If I Ever Need Attention All I Have To Do Is Die on drums

238 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 6:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
238
LENGTH
6:48
DIFFICULTY
41/100

ride through bar 1, snare through bars 2-64, ride through bars 65-96, snare through bars 97-114, hi-hat through bars 115-130 and snare through bars 131-147, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-51, 53-55 and 57-59, and 25 more places -- 25.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    49
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---------|
Good To Know That If I Ever Need Attention All I Have To Do Is Die -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 48 and 96.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- D, E, F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 60-100 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Good To Know That If I Ever Need Attention All I Have To Do Is Die?

140 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 Good To Know That If I Ever Need Attention All I Have To Do Is Die hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

238 bars, about 6:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Good To Know That If I Ever Need Attention All I Have To Do Is Die?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 48 and 96.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 238 BARS ANALYSED