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The Day I Died, I Heard No Singing · Balmora

EXERCISE 11 OF 91
Groove D -- Part D
60 / 173 BARS COVERED
0 / 91 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
CHORUS
PART I
PART X
CHORUS 2
PART AO
PART C
OUTRO 2
14 groovesGICAOX+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 4
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Day I Died, I Heard No Singing on drums

173 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-36, kick and crashes through bars 37-38, hi-hat through bars 39-41, snare through bars 42-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-62, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-17, 23-24 and 91-97, and 2 more places -- 13.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
The Day I Died, I Heard No Singing -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 2, 6, 18, 20, 22, 28 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 68 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, I -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-31 -- 7 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-120 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Bars 39-119 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Day I Died, I Heard No Singing?

190 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 The Day I Died, I Heard No Singing hard to play on drums?

61 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 The Day I Died, I Heard No Singing?

22 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 2, 6, 18, 20, 22, 28 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED