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Beneath The Surface · As Blood Runs Black

EXERCISE 20 OF 88
Groove N -- Part N
161 / 287 BARS COVERED
0 / 88 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
PART D
PART N
CHORUS
PART AD
PART W
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
12 groovesRUWDAD+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 5
JOIN · 14
LINK · 8
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Beneath The Surface on drums

287 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 4:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
287
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
54/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-30, ride through bars 31-32, toms through bars 33-64, hi-hat through bars 65-76 and ride through bars 77-82, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-37, 39-41 and 43-45, and 33 more places -- 23.2% 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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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
BD |x-x---x-x---x-x-|
Beneath The Surface -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 6, 9, 10, 14, 17, 18 and 41 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 70 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 -- R, U, D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 20-68 -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Bars 27-35 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part N and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 54-72 -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Beneath The Surface?

240 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 Beneath The Surface hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 4 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

287 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Beneath The Surface?

17 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 6, 9, 10, 14, 17, 18 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 287 BARS ANALYSED