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beads of blood · KYOURI

beads of blood · KYOURI
EXERCISE 7 OF 16
Join Part E to Chorus 2 (bars 12-14)
70 / 83 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART E
CHORUS 5
PART E
OUTRO
7 groovesCES13S6S15+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play beads of blood on drums

83 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:46 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
56/100

ride through bars 1-31, silence through bars 32-35, ride through bars 36-69, silence through bars 70-73, ride through bars 74-75 and silence through bars 76-77, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-4, 7 and 14-17, and 6 more places -- 46.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------x---x---|
beads of blood -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-42 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is beads of blood?

120 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 beads of blood hard to play on drums?

56 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED