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Old Data in a Dead Machine · Vein

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EXERCISE 16 OF 65
Fill at bar 4 (a small one)
34 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART D
PART H
CHORUS
OUTRO
9 groovesPAJHAD+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Old Data in a Dead Machine on drums

87 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 1:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
1:49
DIFFICULTY
65/100

snare through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-10, snare through bars 11-30, hi-hat through bars 31-60, silence through bars 61-67 and snare through bars 68-70, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 64, 66-68 and 70-71, and 2 more places -- 11.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    66                               67
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-----x---------x-----x---------|
HH |--------------------------------|------------o---------------o---|
SD |--------x-----------x-------x---|------------x---------------x---|
BD |x---x-------x---x-------x-------|x-----x---------x-----x---------|
Old Data in a Dead Machine -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 4, 6, 11, 21, 23, 27 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- AJ -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, P -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-32 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 1-12 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Old Data in a Dead Machine?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Old Data in a Dead Machine hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 1:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Old Data in a Dead Machine?

19 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 4, 6, 11, 21, 23, 27 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED