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IN DYING DAYS · Angelmaker

IN DYING DAYS · Angelmaker
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EXERCISE 3 OF 86
Groove K -- Chorus
15 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 86 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT
PART C
CHORUS
PART P
PART X
PART AB
PART AF
PART AM
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesKAFCXAB+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play IN DYING DAYS on drums

110 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 2:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
84/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-15, toms through bars 16-18 and hi-hat through bars 19-47, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 64-70 and 72-78 -- 13% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    64                                                               65
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|
SD |----------------------------------------------------------------|x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x-------------------------------x--x-x--x--x-x--|x---------------x--x-x--x--x-x--x---------------x---------------|
IN DYING DAYS -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 17 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- AF -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 3-20 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is IN DYING DAYS?

153 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 DYING DAYS hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 DYING DAYS?

23 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 17 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED