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My Own Grave · As I Lay Dying

EXERCISE 1 OF 64
Groove P -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART F
PART K
CHORUS
PART F
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART AE
PART AH
BREAK
OUTRO
11 groovesPAOFKS1+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Own Grave on drums

126 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
78/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, ride through bars 21-24, snare through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-28 and snare through bars 29-48, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-47 and 67-73 -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    41
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x---x---x---x-x-x---x---x-|
My Own Grave -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 17, 18, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- P -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-29 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-51 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 40-59 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 55-120 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is My Own Grave?

125 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 My Own Grave hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 My Own Grave?

14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 17, 18, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED