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Suicide From Despair · fatherlessness

EXERCISE 26 OF 52
Groove L -- Part L
68 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
PART E
PART A
PART K
PART L
CHORUS
PART V
PART Z
OUTRO
BREAK 3
9 groovesOVAKZ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Suicide From Despair on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
60/100

ride through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-4, ride through bars 5-6, snare through bars 7-8, ride through bars 9-16 and toms through bars 17-20, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-2, 5 and 9, and 6 more places -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |---x--x-x--x--x-|x--x--x-x--x--x-|
T1 |--------x-------|----------------|
T2 |----------------|x---------------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|--------x--x--x-|
Suicide From Despair -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 12, 16, 17 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- A, Z -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and Part A -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-22 -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 37-64 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Suicide From Despair?

120 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 Suicide From Despair hard to play on drums?

60 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 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 Suicide From Despair?

11 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 12, 16, 17 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED