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Welcome To Dying · Blind Guardian

EXERCISE 10 OF 51
Join Part E to Chorus (bars 11-13)
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0 / 51 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART T
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
5 groovesGTEAS10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Welcome To Dying on drums

212 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
212
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
80/100

snare through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-34, snare through bars 35-37, hi-hat through bars 38-57, snare through bars 58-63 and hi-hat through bars 64-75, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 21-27 and 29-34, and 18 more places -- 53.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--xx--xx--|
Welcome To Dying -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 16, 35, 53, 54, 55 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-36 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part T -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part T -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Welcome To Dying?

180 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 Welcome To Dying hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

212 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Welcome To Dying?

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 16, 35, 53, 54, 55 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 212 BARS ANALYSED