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Let It Die · Foo Fighters

EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove B -- Part B
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PART B
PART C
PART E
PART G
PART S10
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesIBMCG+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Let It Die on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-33, silence through bars 34-39, hi-hat through bars 40-48, ride through bars 49-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-55, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-24 -- 22.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |r---r---r---r---|
Let It Die -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 66, 68, 70 and 84.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- B, I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 49-62 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Let It Die?

124 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 Let It Die hard to play on drums?

51 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Let It Die?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 66, 68, 70 and 84.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED