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The Grief Trilogy, Stage. 1 ("Till' Death Do Us Part") · Change The Frequency

EXERCISE 11 OF 39
3-bar fill at bar 8
22 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2
CHORUS
PART S2
PART L
PART O
PART R
PART U
BREAK 4
PART Z
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
13 groovesAULOZ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Grief Trilogy, Stage. 1 ("Till' Death Do Us Part") on drums

85 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
76/100

toms through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-10, snare through bars 11-16, ride through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-47 and snare through bars 48-51, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 62-68 -- 9.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    62                               63
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
SD |--------------------------------|------------------------x---g---|
T1 |x---g---x---g---x---g---x---g---|x---g---x---g---x---g-----------|
T2 |x---g---x---g---x---g---x---g---|x---g---x---g---x---g---x---g---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
The Grief Trilogy, Stage. 1 ("Till' Death Do Us Part") -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 33, 45, 47 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- Z -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N, U -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 11-50 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-16 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Break and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Grief Trilogy, Stage. 1 ("Till' Death Do Us Part")?

120 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 Grief Trilogy, Stage. 1 ("Till' Death Do Us Part") hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Grief Trilogy, Stage. 1 ("Till' Death Do Us Part")?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 33, 45, 47 and 4 more.

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