← SONGS

Bleed · Malcolm Todd, Omar Apollo

Bleed · Malcolm Todd, Omar Apollo
EXERCISE 1 OF 6
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 6 PASSED · 58 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bleed on drums

84 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-84.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-9, 11 and 13-17, and 17 more places -- 73.4% 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-g-x-g---g-x-g-|
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

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 33 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is Bleed?

125 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?

58 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED