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"Kiss You To Death" · Alkaline Trio

EXERCISE 27 OF 40
Groove N -- Part N
57 / 86 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
PART S7
PART M
PART N
OUTRO 2
9 groovesHES1MS7+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play "Kiss You To Death" on drums

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 3:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, toms through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-37, toms through bars 38-51 and kick and crashes through bars 52-53, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 38-40, and 1 more place -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x------x|
SD |--------x-------|
T2 |--xxxx----xxxx--|
FT |------x-------x-|
BD |x------x-------x|
"Kiss You To Death" -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 21, 25, 29, 37, 41, 45 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-54 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 64-70 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is "Kiss You To Death"?

106 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 You To Death" hard to play on drums?

54 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 You To Death"?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 21, 25, 29, 37, 41, 45 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED