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Bleed Me An Ocean BETTER · Acid Bath

EXERCISE 1 OF 55
Groove Y -- Chorus
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PART A
PART J
CHORUS
PART AA
CHORUS 2
PART AA
OUTRO
BREAK
8 groovesS11YAAJA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bleed Me An Ocean BETTER on drums

154 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 130 BPM, 7:17 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
7:17
DIFFICULTY
45/100

ride through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-22, toms through bars 23-24, ride through bars 25-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-77, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41, 43 and 51, and 6 more places -- 11.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a8e+a
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-x-----x-------x-------x---|
Bleed Me An Ocean BETTER -- 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 6, 7, 8, 12, 16, 18 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- Y, AA -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 10-25 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part P -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 30-36 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bleed Me An Ocean BETTER?

130 BPM, in 8/4, 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 Me An Ocean BETTER hard to play on drums?

45 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 7:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Me An Ocean BETTER?

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 12, 16, 18 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED