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Kiss Me... Death · Mark Appolonsky, Oleksiy Dudin

Kiss Me... Death · Mark Appolonsky, Oleksiy Dudin
EXERCISE 12 OF 55
Fill at bar 20
78 / 160 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGWMSTFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kiss Me... Death on drums

160 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 4:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
73/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, toms through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-34 and snare through bars 35-48, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 49-51, and 5 more places -- 15% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 37 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M, Q (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part M -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part M -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 39-48 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 47-81 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Kiss Me... Death?

136 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 Kiss Me... Death hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 14 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 Kiss Me... Death?

13 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED