ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bells on drums

47 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 95 BPM, 3:04 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO: 95 BPM
TIME: 8/4
BARS: 47
LENGTH: 3:04
DIFFICULTY: 49/100

hi-hat through bars 1-34, silence through bars 35-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-47.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-9, 11-18 and 29-34 -- 38.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    3                                                4
    1.....2.....3.....4.....5.....6.....7.....8..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....5.....6.....7.....8.....
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x--------------------x--x-----------------x-----|x--------------------x--x--------x-----x-----x--|

Bells -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 19 and 20.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Bars 22-52 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
Through Part L and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.

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Questions

What BPM is Bells?

95 BPM, in 8/4, 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 Bells hard to play on drums?

49 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?

47 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 7 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Bells?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 19 and 20.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 47 BARS ANALYSED