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EXERCISE 22 OF 49
Groove L -- Part L
102 / 169 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
PART A
CHORUS
PART I
PART K
PART L
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART K
PART L
BREAK
OUTRO
9 groovesFKISS12+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Death We Seek! on drums

169 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:59 of it without a break -- 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
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
54/100

snare through bars 1-15, toms through bars 16-33, snare through bars 34-65, hi-hat through bars 66-81, snare through bars 82-89 and ride through bars 90-97, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-61, 84 and 88, and 5 more places -- 19.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    50
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x-------x-------|
BD |--x-x-x---x-x-x-|
The Death We Seek! -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 21, 33, 97, 105, 141 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- K, F -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 30-53 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part N -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 64-82 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Death We Seek!?

170 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 We Seek! 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 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 The Death We Seek!?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 21, 33, 97, 105, 141 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED