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The Death of Innocence · Dark Angel

EXERCISE 20 OF 72
Run D2 · Part D (bars 22-28)
150 / 226 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART O
CHORUS 5
PART V
CHORUS 6
PART O
CHORUS 7
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFODVH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Death of Innocence on drums

226 bars at 245 BPM -- fast, and 3:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
245 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
226
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
94/100

snare through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-5, ride through bars 6-13, hi-hat through bars 14-21, ride through bars 22-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-37, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-20, 30-36 and 46-53, and 16 more places -- 33.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
The Death of Innocence -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 5, 13, 21, 28, 37 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 29-64 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 61-82 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Death of Innocence?

245 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 of Innocence hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

226 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 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 The Death of Innocence?

17 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 5, 13, 21, 28, 37 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 226 BARS ANALYSED