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Make Me Wanna Die (Pretty Reckless cover) · Memento Mori

EXERCISE 1 OF 35
Groove C -- Part C (a two-bar phrase)
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COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesICAPS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Make Me Wanna Die (Pretty Reckless cover) on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

47 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
96
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-13, hi-hat through bars 14-21, silence through bars 22-25, ride through bars 26-29 and snare through bars 30-37, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-13, 34-37 and 76, and 1 more place -- 24.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    6                7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----------------|--------x---x---|
SD |----------------|--------x---x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x--x|
Make Me Wanna Die (Pretty Reckless cover) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 17, 29, 30, 31, 41, 49 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- C, I -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-42 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 39-52 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 48-71 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 71-83 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Make Me Wanna Die (Pretty Reckless cover)?

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 Make Me Wanna Die (Pretty Reckless cover) hard to play on drums?

47 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 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 Make Me Wanna Die (Pretty Reckless cover)?

5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 17, 29, 30, 31, 41, 49 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED