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Where We Go When We Die. · Thornhill

EXERCISE 7 OF 63
Groove C -- Part C
82 / 206 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART C, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART H
BREAK
PART K
PART V
PART C
PART AK
BREAK 3
OUTRO
12 groovesBHVS12S3+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Where We Go When We Die. on drums

206 bars at 177 BPM -- fast, and 4:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
177 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
206
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bars 1-31, ride through bars 32-33, hi-hat through bars 34-48, silence through bars 49-64, hi-hat through bars 65-80 and snare through bars 81-108, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 6-7 and 10-11, and 13 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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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |--x---x---------|
Where We Go When We Die. -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 32, 35, 36, 40, 44 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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, V -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-126 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-77 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part V -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part V -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Where We Go When We Die.?

177 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 Where We Go When We Die. hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

206 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Where We Go When We Die.?

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 32, 35, 36, 40, 44 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 206 BARS ANALYSED