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Meaning In Tragedy · As I Lay Dying

EXERCISE 21 OF 30
Groove P -- Outro
44 / 66 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART S2
PART E
PART F
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGQEFP+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Meaning In Tragedy on drums

66 bars, 4:48, at 55 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
55 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
75/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-19, toms through bars 20-21, snare through bars 22-29, hi-hat through bars 30-57 and snare through bars 58-66.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-9, 14-17 and 30-33 -- 18.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    6
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Meaning In Tragedy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. Bars 2-13 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 12-42 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Meaning In Tragedy?

55 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Meaning In Tragedy hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 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 Meaning In Tragedy?

4 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED