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Bleed Me Dry · Memphis May Fire

EXERCISE 22 OF 45
Fill at bar 39
53 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART U
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART O
PART U
PART O
OUTRO
9 groovesDOUADA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bleed Me Dry on drums

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-11, toms through bars 12-16, snare through bars 17-30, toms through bars 31-35 and snare through bars 36-45, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25 and 40-42, and 3 more places -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-----x-|
BD |x-----x-------x-x-----x---------|
Bleed Me Dry -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 6, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- O -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-26 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 24-36 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 32-55 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part A and Part U -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bleed Me Dry?

96 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Dry hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Bleed Me Dry?

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 6, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED