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(I Just) Died In Your Arms Tonight (Orchestral Version) · Cutting Crew

EXERCISE 1 OF 31
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART S8
OUTRO
6 groovesBS8ES1I+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

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

160 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-90, ride through bars 91-96, toms through bars 97-102, hi-hat through bars 103-111 and silence through bars 112-142, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-27 and 29-35, and 15 more places -- 54.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
(I Just) Died In Your Arms Tonight (Orchestral Version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 52, 66, 89, 90, 96, 110 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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, E -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 84-92 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 88-98 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 4 minutes.
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Questions

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

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

43 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 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 (I Just) Died In Your Arms Tonight (Orchestral Version)?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 52, 66, 89, 90, 96, 110 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED