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bleeding sky · Haken

EXERCISE 15 OF 32
Run K1 · Part K (bars 43-46)
22 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
COUNT-IN
PART A
BREAK
PART H
PART K
PART O
CHORUS
OUTRO
14 groovesS11S14S4OA+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play bleeding sky on drums

119 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
34/100

silence through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-18, ride through bars 19-20, silence through bars 21-37, hi-hat through bars 38-48 and snare through bars 49-63, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50, 52 and 56, and 1 more place -- 9.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    52
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--x-----x-------|
BD |------x---x---x-|
bleeding sky -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 16, 37, 41, 42, 48, 54 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- P, H -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part H and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 43-55 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 50-63 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is bleeding sky?

150 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 sky hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 bleeding sky?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 16, 37, 41, 42, 48, 54 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED