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EXERCISE 12 OF 17
Groove F
90 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEAS4S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Someone's Gonna Die on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-71, silence through bars 72-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-112.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-29, 31 and 33, and 14 more places -- 70.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Someone's Gonna Die -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 76 and 78.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part A -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 11-84 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Someone's Gonna Die?

150 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 Someone's Gonna Die hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 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 Someone's Gonna Die?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 76 and 78.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED