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Bleeding Is A Luxury · Atreyu

EXERCISE 11 OF 43
Groove J -- Part J
51 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART J
PART W
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCNWYJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bleeding Is A Luxury on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
70/100

snare through bars 2-12, hi-hat through bars 13-21, snare through bars 22-29, hi-hat through bars 30-40, snare through bars 41-52 and ride through bars 53-57, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 22-24, and 3 more places -- 22.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    3
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-x---x-----x---x-x---x-----x---|
Bleeding Is A Luxury -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 6, 14, 18, 25, 29, 30 and 6 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N, W -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  8. Bars 19-26 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bleeding Is A Luxury?

95 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 Bleeding Is A Luxury hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 14 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Bleeding Is A Luxury?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 6, 14, 18, 25, 29, 30 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED