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the die has been cast · Femme Fatale

the die has been cast · Femme Fatale
EXERCISE 1 OF 59
Groove F -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART C
PART M
PART P
PART S
CHORUS 2
10 groovesFCPS1D+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play the die has been cast on drums

119 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-33, snare through bars 34-64, ride through bars 65-75 and hi-hat through bars 76-88, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-39, 42-44 and 46-47, and 6 more places -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x--x-x--x---|
the die has been cast -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 40, 41, 45, 48, 52, 56 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 36-111 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-57 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is the die has been cast?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 die has been cast hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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 die has been cast?

14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 40, 41, 45, 48, 52, 56 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED