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Belleville · Knocked Loose

EXERCISE 23 OF 66
Join Part K to Part N (bars 29-31)
57 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, PART N
PART E
PART J
PART K
PART N
PART P
PART T
PART Z
CHORUS
PART AI
PART AM
15 groovesDZJPAI+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Belleville on drums

116 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 2:55 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
62/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, ride through bars 9-11, hi-hat through bars 12-15 and snare through bars 16-20, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 75 and 77, and 5 more places -- 10.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    75
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|
Belleville -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 30 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- D, Z -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part Z -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 29-47 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part P and Part T -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Belleville?

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

Is Belleville hard to play on drums?

62 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Belleville?

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 30 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED