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Last Man Standing · Dagames

EXERCISE 11 OF 81
Join Part B to Break (bars 7-9)
82 / 197 BARS COVERED
0 / 81 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, BREAK
PART B
BREAK
CHORUS
PART U
PART X
CHORUS 2
PART AH
BREAK 3
15 groovesKUS21AHE+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 17
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Last Man Standing on drums

197 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:44 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
56/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, silence through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-24, snare through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-34 and snare through bars 35-41, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-33, 36 and 38-41, and 17 more places -- 21.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    108
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Last Man Standing -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 4, 6, 14, 18, 22, 34 and 34 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- K, U -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-15 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 58-81 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Last Man Standing?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Last Man Standing hard to play on drums?

56 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

197 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 17 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Last Man Standing?

16 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 4, 6, 14, 18, 22, 34 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 197 BARS ANALYSED