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Blessed Be Your Name · Tree63

EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART D
PART F
PART H
PART F
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAFHMD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blessed Be Your Name on drums

110 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
43/100

hi-hat through bars 1-68, ride through bars 69-76, hi-hat through bars 77-85, ride through bars 86-93, hi-hat through bars 94-101 and ride through bars 102-110.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-16, 18-19 and 78-80, and 1 more place -- 21.8% 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 |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----r-------r---|
Blessed Be Your Name -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- A, F -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-32 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 65-81 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 82-97 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Blessed Be Your Name?

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 Blessed Be Your Name hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 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.

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