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Where Dead Angels Lie - D standard · Dissection

EXERCISE 22 OF 117
Groove L -- Part L
120 / 216 BARS COVERED
0 / 117 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
CHORUS
PART L
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS 4
9 groovesJBEALBI+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 36
LAND · 36
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 9
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Where Dead Angels Lie - D standard on drums

216 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 80 BPM, 8:05 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
8:05
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-30, snare through bars 31-40, hi-hat through bars 41-64 and ride through bars 65-80, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 22 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1...............2...............3...............
CC |X-----------------------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x---------------x---x-------------------x-------|
Where Dead Angels Lie - D standard -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

36 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 12, 20, 23, 24, 31, 32 and 51 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 80 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-21 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 29-41 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 18 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Where Dead Angels Lie - D standard?

80 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Where Dead Angels Lie - D standard hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

216 bars, about 8:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 80 exercises over 26 sittings, about 25 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 Where Dead Angels Lie - D standard?

36 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 12, 20, 23, 24, 31, 32 and 51 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 216 BARS ANALYSED