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Let it Die · Starset

EXERCISE 28 OF 44
Run E2 · Part E (bars 47-74)
84 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 28 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
CHORUS
PART E
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCEIS10A+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Let it Die on drums

109 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-66, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 41-43 and 45-46, and 9 more places -- 29.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 24, 32, 36, 40, 50, 58 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- C, E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 22-82 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 43-75 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and the Break -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Let it Die?

126 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?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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?

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 24, 32, 36, 40, 50, 58 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED