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Blaze Heart · SWORD OF JUSTICE

Blaze Heart · SWORD OF JUSTICE
EXERCISE 15 OF 72
Groove P
145 / 226 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, PART Q, PART V
CHORUS
PART K
PART Q
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART AF
PART AB
CHORUS 4
12 groovesHABKAFB+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 14
LINK · 4
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blaze Heart on drums

226 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 5:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
226
LENGTH
5:34
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-5, toms through bars 6-9, snare through bars 10-25, hi-hat through bars 26-57 and ride through bars 58-61, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-24 and 66, and 20 more places -- 32.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
Blaze Heart -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 57, 61, 85, 105, 109, 113 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- H, AB -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part K and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and Part V -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part V and Part Y -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Blaze Heart?

162 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 Blaze Heart hard to play on drums?

55 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

226 bars, about 5:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 18 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 Blaze Heart?

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 57, 61, 85, 105, 109, 113 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 226 BARS ANALYSED