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wonderful life (feat. Dani Filth) · Bring Me The Horizon

EXERCISE 3 OF 51
Groove Q -- Part Q (a two-bar phrase)
73 / 198 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q
PART S2
PART B
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART Q
CHORUS 3
13 groovesCQS2AB+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play wonderful life (feat. Dani Filth) on drums

198 bars at 173 BPM -- fast, and 4:35 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
173 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-26, snare through bars 27-42, hi-hat through bars 43-58, snare through bars 59-82, hi-hat through bars 83-89 and snare through bars 90-114, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 29 and 31, and 38 more places -- 23.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|
wonderful life (feat. Dani Filth) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 50, 58, 146, 154, 162 and 170.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-63 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 72-106 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part A and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is wonderful life (feat. Dani Filth)?

173 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 wonderful life (feat. Dani Filth) hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

198 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 wonderful life (feat. Dani Filth)?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 50, 58, 146, 154, 162 and 170.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 198 BARS ANALYSED