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Sign of Life · Motionless In White

EXERCISE 1 OF 56
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART Q
CHORUS 5
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesCS16IMQ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sign of Life on drums

173 bars at 202 BPM -- fast, and 3:26 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
202 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
38/100

snare through bar 1, silence through bars 2-7, snare through bars 8-16, hi-hat through bars 17-29, snare through bars 30-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-67, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 13 more places -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|
Sign of Life -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 22, 24, 32, 40, 74 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- C, J (a two-bar phrase), I -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part S1 and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-47 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 53-99 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part S -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 81-104 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 108-118 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sign of Life?

202 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Sign of Life hard to play on drums?

38 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Sign of Life?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 22, 24, 32, 40, 74 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED