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BELLADONNA · Wolf & Bear

BELLADONNA · Wolf & Bear
EXERCISE 7 OF 45
Groove B -- Part B (a two-bar phrase)
41 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART A
PART B
PART G
PART L
CHORUS
PART Z
PART G
PART L
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesRGLZA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play BELLADONNA on drums

98 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 2:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25, snare through bars 26-27, hi-hat through bars 28-29 and snare through bars 30-47, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 52-65 -- 15.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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SD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
BELLADONNA -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 16, 20, 21 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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, R -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part B -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-26 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part L -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 48-75 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is BELLADONNA?

154 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 BELLADONNA hard to play on drums?

59 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 BELLADONNA?

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 16, 20, 21 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED