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In Death - Is Death · Meshuggah

EXERCISE 1 OF 98
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART AI
PART N
PART S11
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesANAIS11AL+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 25
LAND · 25
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 6
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In Death - Is Death on drums

225 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 7:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
7:09
DIFFICULTY
65/100

snare through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-40, snare through bars 41-56, hi-hat through bars 57-72, snare through bars 73-89 and silence through bars 90-92, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 10 and 41, and 11 more places -- 6.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    195
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x--x|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
In Death - Is Death -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

25 fills to learn, played 130 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 124 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 72 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 -- A, AI -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AL -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-192 -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-102 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-57 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is In Death - Is Death?

126 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 In Death - Is Death hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

225 bars, about 7:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 25 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 In Death - Is Death?

25 fills to learn, played 130 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 124 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 225 BARS ANALYSED