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Blessed With A Curse · Bring Me The Horizon

EXERCISE 24 OF 55
Fill at bar 60 (a small one)
73 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART G
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART F
PART S
PART W
PART S9
PART AC
PART AG
11 groovesBDS9WAC+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blessed With A Curse on drums

135 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, snare through bars 21-29, silence through bars 30-31, hi-hat through bars 32-53 and snare through bars 54-64, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 33-35, and 3 more places -- 15.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x-----|
Blessed With A Curse -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 19, 20, 24, 52, 55, 56 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- B, F -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part F -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part F and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Blessed With A Curse?

130 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 With A Curse hard to play on drums?

48 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 12 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Blessed With A Curse?

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 19, 20, 24, 52, 55, 56 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED