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President Dead · Marilyn Manson

EXERCISE 3 OF 26
Groove G -- Outro
27 / 62 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGDBICFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play President Dead on drums

62 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
62/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-37, ride through bars 38-45, hi-hat through bars 46-57 and toms through bars 58-62.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-16 and 26-32 -- 22.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10               11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|o-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x----x---|----x--x----x---|
T1 |----------------|--------------x-|
T2 |--------------x-|----------------|
BD |x-x--x---x-x----|x-x--x---x-x----|
President Dead -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 17, 21, 33, 45 and 53.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- D, B -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-49 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is President Dead?

80 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 President Dead hard to play on drums?

62 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 President Dead?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 17, 21, 33, 45 and 53.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED