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Bless the Child (drums) · Nightwish

EXERCISE 20 OF 69
Join Part H to Chorus 2 (bars 65-67)
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0 / 69 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART S
PART U
CHORUS 3
13 groovesDHFBS1+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bless the Child (drums) on drums

196 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 5:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
196
LENGTH
5:53
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-24, toms through bars 25-31, kick and crashes through bars 32-34, hi-hat through bars 35-58 and ride through bars 59-66, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-41, 43-50 and 53-54, and 5 more places -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxx---xxx-x-xxx-|
Bless the Child (drums) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 42, 58, 62, 66, 82, 86 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-59 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 55-67 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 63-105 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part S9 and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 104-122 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bless the Child (drums)?

126 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 Bless the Child (drums) hard to play on drums?

58 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

196 bars, about 5:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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 Bless the Child (drums)?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 42, 58, 62, 66, 82, 86 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 196 BARS ANALYSED