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Bleed It Dry · Alter Bridge

EXERCISE 9 OF 77
Groove G
127 / 251 BARS COVERED
0 / 77 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART O
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART S13
PART D
PART M
OUTRO 2
17 groovesLCS13DB+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 16
LINK · 6
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bleed It Dry on drums

251 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 168 BPM, 4:29 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
251
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
44/100

snare through bars 2-18, hi-hat through bars 19-52, silence through bars 53-55, snare through bars 56-74, hi-hat through bars 75-108 and silence through bars 109-111, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 16 and 21, and 33 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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |o---o---o---|
SD |x-----------|
BD |------x-x---|
Bleed It Dry -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 51, 59, 107, 127, 129, 164 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- D, C -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-52 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 62-194 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bleed It Dry?

168 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Bleed It Dry hard to play on drums?

44 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

251 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Bleed It Dry?

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 51, 59, 107, 127, 129, 164 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 251 BARS ANALYSED