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Join Me In Death · HIM

EXERCISE 5 OF 22
Run C1 · Chorus (bars 8-14)
71 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART H
PART I
OUTRO
6 groovesCDHS1I+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Join Me In Death on drums

98 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-30, snare through bars 31-42, hi-hat through bars 43-52 and snare through bars 53-64, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-14, 31-44 and 53-66, and 1 more place -- 52.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 30, 52, 84 and 98.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- C, D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 8-34 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus 3 and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 75-83 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Join Me In Death?

114 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 Join Me In Death hard to play on drums?

50 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Join Me In Death?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 30, 52, 84 and 98.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED