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Be Still Our Bleeding Hearts · Cattle Decapitation

EXERCISE 1 OF 85
Groove Q -- Chorus
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PART H
CHORUS
PART O
PART AC
CHORUS 2
PART S11
PART H
PART AC
CHORUS 3
10 groovesQACOHS11+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Be Still Our Bleeding Hearts on drums

264 bars at 265 BPM -- fast, and 3:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
265 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
264
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
62/100

toms through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-14, hi-hat through bars 15-16, ride through bars 17-22, hi-hat through bars 23-28 and snare through bars 29-32, and 29 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 35 and 37, and 15 more places -- 20.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    105
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Be Still Our Bleeding Hearts -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 15 and 55 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- Q, AC -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 10-33 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Be Still Our Bleeding Hearts?

265 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 Be Still Our Bleeding Hearts hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

264 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Be Still Our Bleeding Hearts?

21 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 15 and 55 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 264 BARS ANALYSED