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beelzebob · Bill Bruford

beelzebob · Bill Bruford
EXERCISE 12 OF 50
Groove K
39 / 118 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART AP
PART AY
PART BB
OUTRO
BREAK
9 groovesIBBAPS10AY+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play beelzebob on drums

118 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 140 BPM, 3:47 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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
140 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 2-36, ride through bars 37-50, hi-hat through bars 51-58, ride through bars 59-63, toms through bars 64-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-74, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 14 and 28-36 -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1e+a2e+
HH |--x---x|
SD |----x--|
BD |x--x---|
beelzebob -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 2, 3, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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, BB -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through Part BB -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AY -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part AP -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is beelzebob?

140 BPM, in 6/4, 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 beelzebob 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 beelzebob?

9 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 2, 3, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED