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Love Me To Death · Suicide Silence

EXERCISE 1 OF 58
Groove Q -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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PART E
PART M
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
5 groovesQMEJBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Love Me To Death on drums

133 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
64/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-4, snare through bars 5-15, hi-hat through bars 16-25, snare through bars 26-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-53, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-30, 32-36 and 54-57, and 14 more places -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    26                                               27
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------x-----x-----x-----|x-----------------xx-xx-------x-----x-----------|
Love Me To Death -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 9, 13, 21, 25, 31, 37 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- Q -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 17-38 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Love Me To Death?

130 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 Love Me To Death hard to play on drums?

64 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Love Me To Death?

14 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 9, 13, 21, 25, 31, 37 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED