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The Death of Spirituality · Infection of the Dying

EXERCISE 9 OF 68
Join Part A to Part F (bars 7-9)
57 / 153 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART F
PART A
PART F
CHORUS
PART A
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART AI
PART Y
CHORUS 5
10 groovesNFAYR+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Death of Spirituality on drums

152 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 4:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
72/100

snare through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-51, kick and crashes through bars 52-53, snare through bars 54-69 and ride through bars 70-73, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-38 and 45-46, and 7 more places -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----------------------x-----|
The Death of Spirituality -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 22, 44, 59 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- N, F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 39-45 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 41-67 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Death of Spirituality?

124 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 The Death of Spirituality hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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 Spirituality?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 22, 44, 59 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED