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They Might As Well Be Dead · Chris Christodoulou

EXERCISE 1 OF 34
Groove H -- Outro
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0 / 34 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
PART A
PART C
PART E
BREAK
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHES4AC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play They Might As Well Be Dead on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
46/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-11, ride through bars 12-33, silence through bars 34-49, ride through bars 50-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-87.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 56-62, 64-66 and 68, and 8 more places -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    56
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---------|
They Might As Well Be Dead -- 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 55, 63, 67, 69, 71, 73 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- H, E -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-56 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Outro -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is They Might As Well Be Dead?

100 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 They Might As Well Be Dead hard to play on drums?

46 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 They Might As Well Be Dead?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 55, 63, 67, 69, 71, 73 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED