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Blood And Iron · Bathory

EXERCISE 14 OF 34
Groove I -- Part I
224 / 263 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART D
PART I
OUTRO
9 groovesBIDES4+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blood And Iron on drums

263 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 8:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
263
LENGTH
8:25
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-21, ride through bars 22-30, silence through bars 31-36, hi-hat through bars 37-61 and ride through bars 62-85, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-19, 21 and 33, and 18 more places -- 54.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|
Blood And Iron -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 84, 85, 100, 112, 113, 197 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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, D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Bars 18-34 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 33-83 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 84-112 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 80-113 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Blood And Iron?

125 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 Blood And Iron hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

263 bars, about 8:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 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 Blood And Iron?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 84, 85, 100, 112, 113, 197 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 263 BARS ANALYSED