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Lullaby For A Dead Man · Elena Siegman

EXERCISE 3 OF 27
Fill at bar 12, 18 and 22 (a small one)
37 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART A
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
5 groovesICAGS8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lullaby For A Dead Man on drums

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-18, ride through bars 19-22, hi-hat through bars 23-37, ride through bars 38-45, hi-hat through bars 46-54 and silence through bars 55-58, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-21, 38-44 and 59-61, and 1 more place -- 32.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    19               20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x-x-|
BD |x-x---x-x-x----x|x-x---x-x--x-x--|
Lullaby For A Dead Man -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 16, 18, 22, 45, 62 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- I, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-49 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 46-77 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Lullaby For A Dead Man?

80 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 Lullaby For A Dead Man hard to play on drums?

61 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 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 Lullaby For A Dead Man?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 16, 18, 22, 45, 62 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED