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There Is No Business To Be Done On A Dead Planet · All Shall Perish

EXERCISE 1 OF 46
Groove Z -- Part Z
0 / 83 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Z, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART D
PART J
PART P
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBPZJN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play There Is No Business To Be Done On A Dead Planet on drums

83 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
94/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-11, hi-hat through bars 12-14, ride through bars 15-64, hi-hat through bars 65-74 and ride through bars 75-83.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43, 45 and 47, and 8 more places -- 13.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    43
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
HH |----------------------------o---|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |----xxx-----------------x-------|
There Is No Business To Be Done On A Dead Planet -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 10, 11, 12 and 23 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 -- Z -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part J -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part J -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through Part P -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is There Is No Business To Be Done On A Dead Planet?

110 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 There Is No Business To Be Done On A Dead Planet hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 15 sittings, about 23 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 There Is No Business To Be Done On A Dead Planet?

9 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 10, 11, 12 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED