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In Death - Is Life · Meshuggah

EXERCISE 18 OF 36
Groove J -- Part J
45 / 64 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT
PART D
PART G
PART F
PART G
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAGJFDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In Death - Is Life on drums

64 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 2:02 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
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
2:02
DIFFICULTY
63/100

snare through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32 and snare through bars 33-64.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 17 and 19, and 8 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 2, 3, 12, 16, 22, 24 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, F -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-10 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-34 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 14-45 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 20-50 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is In Death - Is Life?

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 Life 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 2:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 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 In Death - Is Life?

7 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 2, 3, 12, 16, 22, 24 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED