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Live Undead · Slayer

EXERCISE 2 OF 86
Groove AL -- Outro
18 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 86 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART D
PART L
PART N
PART L
PART T
PART D
PART S12
PART AJ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesALAJDLN+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Live Undead on drums

141 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 5:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
73/100

silence through bars 1-3, kick and crashes through bars 4-5, silence through bars 6-7, toms through bars 8-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-20 and hi-hat through bars 21-28, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 86-91, 98-99 and 106-107, and 3 more places -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    86
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x--x--------x-----------x--x--------|
Live Undead -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- AJ -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AL, L -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 4-9 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 59-69 -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Live Undead?

108 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 Live Undead hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 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 Live Undead?

23 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED