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In Dying Days · As Blood Runs Black

EXERCISE 1 OF 88
Groove N -- Chorus
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PART F
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART AF
PART I
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
15 groovesNIFQBF+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 10
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In Dying Days on drums

169 bars of 4/4 at 151 BPM, about 4:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
151 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
77/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-8, snare through bars 9-18, toms through bars 19-22, hi-hat through bars 23-28 and ride through bars 29-30, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-25, 27 and 31-33, and 9 more places -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    23
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |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

18 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 5, 7, 8, 15, 16 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 69 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 -- N -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 3-23 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part V -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 35-50 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is In Dying Days?

151 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?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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?

18 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 5, 7, 8, 15, 16 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED