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The Dust Of The Dead · Black Aliances Of Death

EXERCISE 3 OF 13
Fill at bar 16
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0 / 13 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART B
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART E
BREAK 2
OUTRO
7 groovesDBES1S6+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Dust Of The Dead on drums

104 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-40, silence through bars 41-44, kick and crashes through bars 45-52, silence through bars 53-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-104.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-40 and 61-100 -- 76.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x------x-------x|
HH |x--xx--xx--xx--x|
SD |-x---x---x---x--|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
The Dust Of The Dead -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 16.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 9-41 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Dust Of The Dead?

120 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 Dust Of The Dead hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Dust Of The Dead?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 16.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED