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Rot To Dead · Sentenced

EXERCISE 3 OF 35
Groove N
17 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, CHORUS, OUTRO
PART E
PART G
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesOGARS7E+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rot To Dead on drums

110 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 100 BPM, 5:17 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
44/100

hi-hat through bars 2-44, ride through bars 45-51, hi-hat through bars 52-74, toms through bars 75-76, hi-hat through bars 77-93 and silence through bars 94-110.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6 and 8-16 -- 10.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    8                9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----------------|x---------------|
HH |o---o-----------|----o---o---o---|
SD |--x-----xx--x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----xx--xx--x-|x-----x-x-----xx|
Rot To Dead -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 4, 25, 45, 46, 47, 48 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- E, M -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Rot To Dead?

100 BPM, in 5/4, 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 Rot To Dead hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 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 Rot To Dead?

5 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 4, 25, 45, 46, 47, 48 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED