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Benblåst · Vildhjarta

EXERCISE 18 OF 29
Join Part S5 to Chorus (bars 38-40)
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0 / 29 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S5, CHORUS
COUNT-IN
PART E
PART S5
CHORUS
PART S8
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesVS1S10ES8+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Benblåst on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-29, snare through bars 30-32, silence through bars 33-34 and snare through bars 35-67, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 40, 54-57 and 59-60 -- 10.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    40
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Benblåst -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 24, 26, 29, 51 and 61.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- V -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-39 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 38-54 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Benblåst?

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

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 5 sittings, about 30 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 Benblåst?

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 24, 26, 29, 51 and 61.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED