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Second Death · Black Tongue

Second Death · Black Tongue
EXERCISE 1 OF 65
Groove O -- Part O
0 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
PART A
PART S2
PART O
PART R
PART AB
CHORUS
PART A
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesAKAHABR+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Second Death on drums

108 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 3:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
77/100

snare through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-17, snare through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-34 and toms through bars 35-37, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-21 and 23-24 -- 5.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Second Death -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 7, 8, 11, 12, 25, 29 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- O -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-17 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part O and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part R and Part V -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part V and Part AB -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Second Death?

112 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Second Death hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Second Death?

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 7, 8, 11, 12, 25, 29 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED