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What Doesn't Die · Anthrax

EXERCISE 12 OF 52
Groove F
107 / 184 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, OUTRO
PART D
PART K
PART K
PART N
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesRWNKA+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 5
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play What Doesn't Die on drums

184 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-14, snare through bars 15-16, silence through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-42, snare through bars 43-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-76, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 91-97, 99-113 and 115-121 -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    91
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
What Doesn't Die -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 20, 36, 46, 62, 90, 98 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- R -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W, N -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 15-27 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 20-37 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is What Doesn't Die?

185 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 What Doesn't Die hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 14 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 What Doesn't Die?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 20, 36, 46, 62, 90, 98 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED