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EXERCISE 5 OF 59
Groove BA -- Outro (a two-bar phrase)
9 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART D
PART I
PART U
CHORUS
PART AQ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesRAQBADU+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play watch me die here on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at 141 BPM, about 2:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
67/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-13, ride through bars 14-40, snare through bars 41-43, ride through bars 44-52 and snare through bars 53-56, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 57-59 and 61-63 -- 6.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    57                                               58
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|------------x-----------------------x--x--------|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----x-----x--x--------x-----|x-----x--x--------x-----x--x--x-----------x-----|
watch me die here -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 11, 14, 16 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- AQ -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BA -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 9-22 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part U -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part U and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is watch me die here?

141 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 watch me die here hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 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 watch me die here?

15 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 11, 14, 16 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED