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Undead Ahead · Motionless In White

EXERCISE 6 OF 70
Groove C -- Part C
42 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2, PART E, PART C
COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART E
PART C
CHORUS
PART B
PART AG
PART AL
PART S11
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesXCS1AGAM+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Undead Ahead on drums

152 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:31 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-20, snare through bars 21-59, kick and crashes through bars 60-63, snare through bars 64-70, toms through bars 71-79 and snare through bars 80-101, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 56-58, 64-66 and 121-123, and 3 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    56
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Undead Ahead -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 16, 19, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 41 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- X -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AL, D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 27-53 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Undead Ahead?

170 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Undead Ahead hard to play on drums?

56 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 Undead Ahead?

16 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 16, 19, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED