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Bleached Bones · Marduk

EXERCISE 20 OF 55
Join Part K to Part M (bars 48-50)
105 / 163 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, PART M
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART M
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART R
PART T
OUTRO 2
8 groovesAKTQN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 9
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bleached Bones on drums

163 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 5:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
40/100

snare through bars 1-20, toms through bars 21-24, snare through bars 25-36, hi-hat through bars 37-52, snare through bars 53-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-80, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 45, 47 and 49, and 18 more places -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    65               66
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----------x---|x---------------|
HH |----o-----------|----o---o-------|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
FT |----------------|------------x-x-|
BD |x-----x-----x---|x-----x---------|
Bleached Bones -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 16, 21, 22, 24, 64, 92 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- K, A -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 40-50 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 48-61 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 52-162 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 64-83 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bleached Bones?

129 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Bleached Bones hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 5:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 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 Bleached Bones?

6 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 16, 21, 22, 24, 64, 92 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED