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What Color Is Death? · Acid Bath

EXERCISE 2 OF 58
Groove C -- Part C
20 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT
PART D
PART C
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART V
OUTRO 2
10 groovesLSVCF+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 5
JOIN · 11
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play What Color Is Death? on drums

126 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
79/100

hi-hat through bars 1-35, snare through bars 36-39, hi-hat through bars 40-46, snare through bars 47-51, ride through bars 52-53 and snare through bars 54-67, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 40-42, 44-46 and 54-67 -- 16% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    54
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
What Color Is Death? -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 21, 36, 37, 38, 39, 43 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- L -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is What Color Is Death??

135 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 What Color Is Death? hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 What Color Is Death??

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 21, 36, 37, 38, 39, 43 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED