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SIX FEET UNDER · key after key

SIX FEET UNDER · key after key
EXERCISE 5 OF 38
Fill at bar 6 (a small one)
70 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART S2
PART S2
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
BREAK
PART L
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDLOGS+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play SIX FEET UNDER on drums

120 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
79/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-40, snare through bars 41-42, hi-hat through bars 43-60, silence through bars 61-67 and hi-hat through bars 68-72, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25-36, and 6 more places -- 62.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    10
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x---x-x-x---x---x-x-|
SIX FEET UNDER -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 6, 8, 16, 24, 40, 41 and 14 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 67-84 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is SIX FEET UNDER?

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

Is SIX FEET UNDER hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 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 SIX FEET UNDER?

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 6, 8, 16, 24, 40, 41 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED