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The Sick, The Dying... And The Dead! · Megadeth

EXERCISE 6 OF 61
Groove G -- Part G
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PART G
PART F
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART S8
CHORUS 3
PART S
PART AA
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
10 groovesKSAAS8N+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Sick, The Dying... And The Dead! on drums

171 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 5:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
5:41
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-38, toms through bars 39-46, hi-hat through bars 47-62 and silence through bars 63-79, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-25, 27-29 and 31-33, and 12 more places -- 25.5% 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
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |------x-------x-|
BD |x---x-----xxx---|
The Sick, The Dying... And The Dead! -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 14, 21, 22, 30, 34, 40 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- K -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, AA -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-15 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 12-40 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 34-50 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 60-97 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part S -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part S -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Sick, The Dying... And The Dead!?

119 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 Sick, The Dying... And The Dead! hard to play on drums?

54 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 5:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 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 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 Sick, The Dying... And The Dead!?

13 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 14, 21, 22, 30, 34, 40 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED