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Bless The Child · Nightwish

EXERCISE 1 OF 62
Groove C -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
PART F
PART N
PART R
PART S10
PART D
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesCAADFN+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bless The Child on drums

130 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-39, silence through bars 40-42, toms through bars 43-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-77, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 19-20 and 101-103, and 3 more places -- 18.6% 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 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 24, 28, 36, 46, 58 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-38 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-47 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part R and Part S10 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bless The Child?

120 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 hard to play on drums?

61 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 15 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 Bless The Child?

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 24, 28, 36, 46, 58 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED