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Bedlam · Whitechapel

EXERCISE 17 OF 72
Groove M -- Part M
53 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M, PART AA
PART C
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART AA
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
10 groovesGMAADC+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bedlam on drums

126 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
66/100

hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-14, snare through bars 15-27, toms through bars 28-31 and snare through bars 32-43, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-13, 15-16 and 36-42, and 4 more places -- 22% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Bedlam -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 9, 14, 17, 23, 28 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- G -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, D -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part M -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part M -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bedlam?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Bedlam hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 Bedlam?

17 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 9, 14, 17, 23, 28 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED