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Bliss In 7 Languages · I Promised The World

EXERCISE 8 OF 52
Groove E (a two-bar phrase)
65 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS
PART L
PART N
PART Q
PART L
PART AA
OUTRO 2
11 groovesDLQTV+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bliss In 7 Languages on drums

141 bars at 194 BPM -- fast, and 2:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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
194 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
58/100

snare through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-18, snare through bars 19-29, kick and crashes through bars 30-33, hi-hat through bars 34-53 and snare through bars 54-69, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10, 13-14 and 17-19, and 6 more places -- 11.8% 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
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----x-----x---|--x-----x-------|
SD |----------------|------------X---|
BD |x-----x-----x---|--x-----x-x-----|
Bliss In 7 Languages -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 21, 29, 32, 41, 112, 124 and 3 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 -- D, T -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 11-105 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bliss In 7 Languages?

194 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Bliss In 7 Languages 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 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Bliss In 7 Languages?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 21, 29, 32, 41, 112, 124 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED