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The Death Dance · Perdolet

EXERCISE 8 OF 32
Part D into Chorus with the record (bars 13-20)
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0 / 32 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS
PART L
PART I
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
8 groovesFLIDK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Death Dance on drums

210 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:40 of it without a break -- on snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
210
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
44/100

toms through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-113, kick and crashes through bars 114-141, snare through bars 142-149, silence through bars 150-153 and kick and crashes through bars 154-170, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21 and 23, and 13 more places -- 30.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |x-------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
The Death Dance -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- F, L -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 45-142 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 141-174 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Death Dance?

180 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 Death Dance hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

210 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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