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Living Dead Beat · Children Of Bodom

EXERCISE 10 OF 87
Groove G -- Part G (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 87 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART M
PART A
PART D
PART G
PART M
PART T
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART AF
PART AK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesXAKDAM+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 10
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Living Dead Beat on drums

157 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-97, toms through bars 98-99, hi-hat through bars 100-107, ride through bars 108-117, hi-hat through bars 118-153 and ride through bars 154-157.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 65, 67-69 and 71-72, and 6 more places -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    67               68
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|x-x--x--x-x--x--|
HH |----x---x---x---|----------------|
SD |----x-------x--x|----x--x----x--x|
BD |x-x----xx-x-----|x-x--x--x-x--x--|
Living Dead Beat -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36 and 41 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- X -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, AS -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part D and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part M -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Living Dead Beat?

130 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 Living Dead Beat hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 19 sittings, about 28 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 Living Dead Beat?

20 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED