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Till Death Do Us Part · White Lion

Till Death Do Us Part · White Lion
EXERCISE 34 OF 34
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesEHS1BS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Till Death Do Us Part on drums

85 bars, 5:25, at 62 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
62 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
5:25
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-57, silence through bars 58-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-85.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-17, 19-21 and 33-35, and 13 more places -- 53.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx-------|
Till Death Do Us Part -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 13, 14, 18, 22, 30, 32 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- E, H -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 9-26 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-58 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Till Death Do Us Part?

62 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Till Death Do Us Part hard to play on drums?

45 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 5:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Till Death Do Us Part?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 13, 14, 18, 22, 30, 32 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED