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EXERCISE 1 OF 44
Groove D -- Chorus 2
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PART A
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART F
PART V
PART Y
CHORUS 5
11 groovesDLYAV+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage (Live In Denver) on drums

118 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:47 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

52 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
118
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, snare through bars 29-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-54, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-14, 21 and 23, and 15 more places -- 30.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    96
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage (Live In Denver) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 20, 28, 36, 44, 53 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, A -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-15 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 38-55 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 50-77 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part V -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part V and Part Y -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage (Live In Denver)?

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 Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage (Live In Denver) hard to play on drums?

52 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage (Live In Denver)?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 20, 28, 36, 44, 53 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED