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IX/What The Dead Men Say · Trivium

IX/What The Dead Men Say · Trivium
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EXERCISE 10 OF 128
Groove D -- Part D (a two-bar phrase)
30 / 167 BARS COVERED
0 / 128 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
PART F
PART J
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART BQ
OUTRO 2
16 groovesAIJACSBQ+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 37
LAND · 37
RUN · 4
JOIN · 17
LINK · 6
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play IX/What The Dead Men Say on drums

167 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
91/100

toms through bars 1-24, ride through bars 25-41, kick and crashes through bars 42-45, snare through bars 46-49, ride through bars 50-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-65, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 67-68, 71 and 91-92, and 3 more places -- 6.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    67
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
RD |--------x---------------x-------x-----------------------x-------|
HH |------------------------------------o---------------------------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-----------x-----------x---------------x---------------x-------|
HF |----------------------------------------x-----------------------|
IX/What The Dead Men Say -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

37 fills to learn, played 72 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 16, 23, 24 and 66 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 90 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 -- AI -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 9-25 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part J -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 44-50 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 21 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is IX/What The Dead Men Say?

150 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 IX/What The Dead Men Say hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 90 exercises over 29 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 IX/What The Dead Men Say?

37 fills to learn, played 72 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 16, 23, 24 and 66 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED