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Bliss · Muse

EXERCISE 1 OF 23
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
PART S5
PART H
PART L
7 groovesBGFHL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bliss on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-36, snare through bars 37-40, toms through bars 41-42 and snare through bars 43-50, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 17-31 and 43-49, and 1 more place -- 43.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|-x--x----x--x---|
BD |x-------x------x|--x----x--x-----|
Bliss -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 32, 42, 50, 66, 84 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, G -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-93 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 77-102 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 93-109 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Bliss?

128 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 Bliss 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Bliss?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 32, 42, 50, 66, 84 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED