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Left To Die · Death

EXERCISE 21 OF 62
Run S61 · Part S6 (bars 75-82)
161 / 218 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S6
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART C
PART S6
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesJCDOR+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Left To Die on drums

218 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
218
LENGTH
5:49
DIFFICULTY
80/100

silence through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-19, hi-hat through bars 20-59, ride through bars 60-75, silence through bars 76-78 and toms through bars 79-82, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-59, 131-137 and 139-146, and 9 more places -- 32.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    39
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
Left To Die -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 23, 26, 27, 30, 31, 35 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- J -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 56-75 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through Part S6 and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part S6 and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part O -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Left To Die?

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 Left To Die hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

218 bars, about 5:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 Left To Die?

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 23, 26, 27, 30, 31, 35 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 218 BARS ANALYSED