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Be My Druidess · Type O Negative

EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove I -- Chorus
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0 / 32 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS
PART S4
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesILGDR+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Be My Druidess on drums

122 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
5:24
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-11, ride through bars 12-19, hi-hat through bars 20-35, ride through bars 36-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-56, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-34 and 48-54 -- 21.2% 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
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x--x--x--|
Be My Druidess -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 7, 19, 35, 47, 55, 75 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, L -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-77 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Be My Druidess?

90 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Be My Druidess hard to play on drums?

53 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 5:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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 Be My Druidess?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 7, 19, 35, 47, 55, 75 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED