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The Past Should Stay Dead · Emarosa

EXERCISE 16 OF 86
Join Part B to Part K (bars 11-13)
31 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 86 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART K
PART B
PART K
PART S
CHORUS
PART AL
PART AA
PART X
PART BA
PART BE
OUTRO 2
15 groovesAEBAASX+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 4
JOIN · 16
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Past Should Stay Dead on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 4:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
81/100

snare through bars 2-6, hi-hat through bars 7-12, snare through bars 13-15, hi-hat through bars 16-20, snare through bars 21-27 and hi-hat through bars 28-30, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 31, 69-71 and 73-76 -- 8.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    69                               70
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x-----x-x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-----x---x-------x---x-x-x-|------x---x-x-x-------x---x-x-x-|
The Past Should Stay Dead -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- X -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- BE -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 11-17 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part N and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 19-32 -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Past Should Stay Dead?

91 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 Past Should Stay Dead hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Past Should Stay Dead?

19 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED