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One Of Us Is Gonna Die Tonight · Perdolet

EXERCISE 7 OF 48
Run A1 · Part A (bars 1-16)
80 / 189 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART F
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 4
BREAK 3
14 groovesTLDS20F+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 2
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play One Of Us Is Gonna Die Tonight on drums

189 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:36 of playing, on snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
5:36
DIFFICULTY
48/100

toms through bars 1-16, silence through bars 17-24, toms through bars 25-44, snare through bars 45-47, toms through bars 48-64 and snare through bars 65-114, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65, 67 and 69, and 11 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    65
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
One Of Us Is Gonna Die Tonight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- T, L -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-39 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 38-45 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Bars 51-57 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is One Of Us Is Gonna Die Tonight?

135 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 One Of Us Is Gonna Die Tonight hard to play on drums?

48 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 5:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED