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Blessed Are The Sick · Morbid Angel

EXERCISE 12 OF 67
Join Part C to Part E (bars 8-10)
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0 / 67 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART E
PART C
PART E
PART I
PART L
PART I
PART AA
PART R
PART AG
OUTRO
11 groovesAMIAGAAC+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blessed Are The Sick on drums

152 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
67/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-10, ride through bars 11-15, hi-hat through bars 16-25, ride through bars 26-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-65, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 34-36, and 5 more places -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18                                               19
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----x-----x-----------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |------------------------o-----------o-----------|o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----------------------x-----|x-----------------------x-----x-----------x-----|
Blessed Are The Sick -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 17, 29, 61, 89, 101 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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, AM -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 6-21 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part I and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Blessed Are The Sick?

120 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 Blessed Are The Sick hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 Blessed Are The Sick?

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 17, 29, 61, 89, 101 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED