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(I Just) Died In Your Arms · Cutting Crew

EXERCISE 1 OF 16
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBHS1S3S7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play (I Just) Died In Your Arms on drums

145 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-7, kick and crashes through bars 8-9, silence through bars 10-16, hi-hat through bars 17-107, silence through bars 108-114 and hi-hat through bars 115-145.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-27, 29-35 and 37-53, and 6 more places -- 84.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-----------------------x-------x-------------------------------|
(I Just) Died In Your Arms -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 36, 74, 97, 98, 106 and 114.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Bars 90-99 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 92-107 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is (I Just) Died In Your Arms?

125 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 (I Just) Died In Your Arms hard to play on drums?

58 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?

145 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 5 sittings, about 20 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 (I Just) Died In Your Arms?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 36, 74, 97, 98, 106 and 114.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED