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Baptism · Lovejoy

EXERCISE 15 OF 50
Run D1 · Part D (bars 1-12)
71 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
PART G
PART J
CHORUS
PART S
OUTRO 2
8 groovesPGJDS+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Baptism on drums

112 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 107 BPM, 3:35 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
70/100

hi-hat through bars 1-28, ride through bars 29-45, silence through bars 46-47, hi-hat through bars 48-79, snare through bars 80-101 and hi-hat through bars 102-105, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48-78 -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x--x-x---x--|
Baptism -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- P -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-32 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part J and Part S4 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Baptism?

107 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Baptism hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Baptism?

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED