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My Place In The Dirt · Demon Hunter

EXERCISE 6 OF 61
Run C1 · Part C (bars 20-43)
78 / 171 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART K
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
10 groovesFKCS1T+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Place In The Dirt on drums

171 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
73/100

silence through bars 1-19, snare through bars 20-51, hi-hat through bars 52-67, ride through bars 68-83, snare through bars 84-91 and kick and crashes through bars 92-95, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 44-50, 52-59 and 64-66, and 3 more places -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    44
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
My Place In The Dirt -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 51, 63, 71, 76, 77, 78 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- F, C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 58-64 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 9 minutes.
  6. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part K -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part K -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is My Place In The Dirt?

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 My Place In The Dirt hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 My Place In The Dirt?

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 51, 63, 71, 76, 77, 78 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED