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Blank · Eyehategod

EXERCISE 1 OF 69
Groove P -- Part P
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PART A
PART H
PART S4
PART P
PART S
PART P
PART S
PART X
PART S10
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
11 groovesAGXPAS10+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blank on drums

205 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 4:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
205
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-35, silence through bars 36-38, ride through bars 39-101 and silence through bars 102-120, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-41, 43-45 and 47-49, and 17 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    39
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|
RD |------x-----|
BD |x---------x-|
Blank -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 49 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- P, AG -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AJ -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-52 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part P and Part S -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part X -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 71-125 -- 9 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Blank?

165 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 Blank hard to play on drums?

47 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

205 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 Blank?

17 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 205 BARS ANALYSED