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Beautiful Mistake · As Blood Runs Black

EXERCISE 1 OF 68
Groove Z -- Part Z
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CHORUS
PART S
PART Z
PART Z
PART Z
PART AE
OUTRO 2
11 groovesFZPSL+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Beautiful Mistake on drums

181 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
74/100

hi-hat through bars 2-13, snare through bars 14-21, hi-hat through bars 22-32, snare through bars 33-51, hi-hat through bars 52-70 and snare through bars 71-119, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 76-79, 84-87 and 124-127, and 2 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    76
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
SD |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x---x---x-|
Beautiful Mistake -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 9, 15, 17, 33, 37, 39 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- Z -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 30-38 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 32-46 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Beautiful Mistake?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Beautiful Mistake hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 19 sittings, about 24 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 Beautiful Mistake?

12 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 9, 15, 17, 33, 37, 39 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED