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Bleed · Collective Soul

EXERCISE 4 OF 23
Fill at bar 28, 56 and 94 (a small one)
80 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bleed on drums

110 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-70, ride through bars 71-86 and hi-hat through bars 87-110.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9-27, and 13 more places -- 67% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Bleed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 28, 56, 64, 65, 66, 67 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Bleed?

114 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 Bleed hard to play on drums?

49 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Bleed?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 28, 56, 64, 65, 66, 67 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED