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Yeah, Girls A Death Trap · Dead Center Symphony

Yeah, Girls A Death Trap · Dead Center Symphony
EXERCISE 18 OF 38
Join Chorus to Break (bars 41-43)
97 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, BREAK
PART C
PART G
CHORUS
BREAK
PART I
PART P
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJCIGT+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 6
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Yeah, Girls A Death Trap on drums

140 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
51/100

ride through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-36, snare through bars 37-43, hi-hat through bars 44-68, snare through bars 69-82 and hi-hat through bars 83-92, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 44-45, 48-49 and 52-53, and 12 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    44
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x-----|
Yeah, Girls A Death Trap -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 21, 39, 41, 73, 79, 81 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- M, I -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part G -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-83 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-69 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part P and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Yeah, Girls A Death Trap?

190 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 Yeah, Girls A Death Trap hard to play on drums?

51 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 Yeah, Girls A Death Trap?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 21, 39, 41, 73, 79, 81 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED