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To Die Is At Hand · Malevolent Creation

To Die Is At Hand · Malevolent Creation
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EXERCISE 18 OF 37
Groove P -- Part P
33 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
PART E
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART U
OUTRO
BREAK
6 groovesS7JEUW+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play To Die Is At Hand on drums

102 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 209 BPM, 3:42 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
209 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
73/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-23, hi-hat through bars 24-32, ride through bars 33-42, hi-hat through bars 43-48 and ride through bars 49-54, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 16-18, 20-22 and 33-35, and 1 more place -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    16                               17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a8e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a8e+a
CC |x-------------------------------|------------------------x---x---|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x---x---x-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
To Die Is At Hand -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- J -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 16-33 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part U -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is To Die Is At Hand?

209 BPM, in 8/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is To Die Is At Hand hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 93 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 To Die Is At Hand?

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED