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Roses For The Dead · Funeral For A Friend

EXERCISE 1 OF 42
Groove H -- Part H
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0 / 42 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART D
PART F
PART H
PART I
PART L
PART D
PART H
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesUHIDP+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Roses For The Dead on drums

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 3:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-22, ride through bars 23-25 and snare through bars 26-41, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-33 and 58-65 -- 16% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xx---x--xx---x--|
Roses For The Dead -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 40, 56, 86, 103, 104 and 105.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- H -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-17 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 23-41 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 46-60 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Roses For The Dead?

106 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 Roses For The Dead hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Roses For The Dead?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 40, 56, 86, 103, 104 and 105.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED