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Tell Me To Die - Alternate Version · Dissolved

EXERCISE 21 OF 88
Groove O (a two-bar phrase)
128 / 305 BARS COVERED
0 / 88 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
CHORUS
PART N
PART V
PART AI
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART V
PART BD
PART N
OUTRO
22 groovesGVNBKAY+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 18
LINK · 9
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tell Me To Die - Alternate Version on drums

278 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 7:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
278
LENGTH
7:41
DIFFICULTY
54/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, silence through bars 9-15, ride through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25 and ride through bars 26-31, and 34 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 272-274, 276-278 and 280-286, and 1 more place -- 8.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    272
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Tell Me To Die - Alternate Version -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 60, 61, 62, 68, 69, 70 and 44 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 74 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 -- BK -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, N -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-63 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-16 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-225 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Bars 44-53 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part N -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part N and Part V -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Tell Me To Die - Alternate Version?

136 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 Tell Me To Die - Alternate Version hard to play on drums?

54 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

278 bars, about 7:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 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 Tell Me To Die - Alternate Version?

13 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 60, 61, 62, 68, 69, 70 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 278 BARS ANALYSED