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In Dying Days (Drop A) · As Blood Runs Black

EXERCISE 10 OF 83
2-bar fill at bar 4
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0 / 83 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2
PART S2
PART F
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AE
PART AQ
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
15 groovesNAQFBFAE+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 9
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In Dying Days (Drop A) 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.

78 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
78/100

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, 27-28 and 31-33, and 9 more places -- 16.3% 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 (Drop A) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 4, 5, 7, 8, 15, 16 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AQ -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- BF -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part S2 and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 7-26 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is In Dying Days (Drop A)?

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 (Drop A) hard to play on drums?

78 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 66 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 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 (Drop A)?

16 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 4, 5, 7, 8, 15, 16 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED