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Let It Die · Three Days Grace

EXERCISE 17 OF 29
Hold Groove H for 8 bars -- Chorus (bars 15-22)
60 / 71 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
5 groovesHBAES6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Let It Die on drums

71 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 2:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 1-10, kick and crashes through bars 11-12, toms through bars 13-14, snare through bars 15-22, hi-hat through bars 23-35 and toms through bars 36-37, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-17, 19-21 and 38-40, and 7 more places -- 41.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------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

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 13, 14, 18, 22, 23 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- H, B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-15 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-46 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Let It Die?

97 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?

52 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?

71 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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?

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 13, 14, 18, 22, 23 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED