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Bleeding Heart · Angra

EXERCISE 39 OF 39
Play the whole song with the record
86 / 90 BARS COVERED
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COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesSKDIB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bleeding Heart on drums

90 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 2:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-24, ride through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-66, ride through bars 67-72 and toms through bars 73-74, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-45 -- 19.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-o---x-x-o---|
Bleeding Heart -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 46, 50, 54 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- I, S -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Bleeding Heart?

124 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 Bleeding Heart hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 2 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 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 Bleeding Heart?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 46, 50, 54 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED