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If He Dies, He Dies · Glass Cloud

If He Dies, He Dies · Glass Cloud
EXERCISE 1 OF 42
Groove E -- Part E
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0 / 42 PASSED · 28 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART E
PART H
PART E
PART H
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
7 groovesMEHABS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play If He Dies, He Dies on drums

168 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 160 BPM, 3:34 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-152 and hi-hat through bars 153-168.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 14-20 and 40-46, and 1 more place -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    7
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |------x--x--x--x--x-----------x-----------------|
If He Dies, He Dies -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 5, 39, 71 and 160.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is If He Dies, He Dies?

160 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is If He Dies, He Dies hard to play on drums?

63 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 If He Dies, He Dies?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 5, 39, 71 and 160.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED