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We Should Be Buried Like This · Bloodred Hourglass

We Should Be Buried Like This · Bloodred Hourglass
EXERCISE 1 OF 73
Groove D -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 73 PASSED · 26 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART M
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART AC
CHORUS 3
PART AN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesDARACAU+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 6
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play We Should Be Buried Like This on drums

161 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 3:08 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
72/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-23, snare through bars 24-34, toms through bars 35-40 and snare through bars 41-82, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-23, 25-31 and 83-89, and 4 more places -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17                               18
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---x-------x---|----x---------------x-------x---|
We Should Be Buried Like This -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 16, 36, 38, 40, 50 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part M -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is We Should Be Buried Like This?

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

Is We Should Be Buried Like This hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 We Should Be Buried Like This?

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 16, 36, 38, 40, 50 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED