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I Think That I Would Die · Hole

EXERCISE 15 OF 26
Join Part H to Part B (bars 25-27)
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PART B
PART H
PART B
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesJBHS8S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Think That I Would Die on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-18, ride through bars 19-34, hi-hat through bars 35-54, ride through bars 55-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-73, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 45-54, 65-72 and 89-98 -- 33.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    45               46
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x---x---x---|
T1 |----------------|--------------XX|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|x-x---x---x-----|
I Think That I Would Die -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 18, 34, 44 and 88.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- J -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, B -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-54 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is I Think That I Would Die?

128 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 Think That I Would Die hard to play on drums?

54 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in I Think That I Would Die?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 18, 34, 44 and 88.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED