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Blood Of The Scribe · Lamb Of God

EXERCISE 3 OF 35
Groove G -- Part G
35 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART A
PART G
PART J
CHORUS
PART P
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesS9LAGP+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blood Of The Scribe on drums

152 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 205 BPM, 4:26 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-22, toms through bars 23-39, ride through bars 40-55, snare through bars 56-71, hi-hat through bars 72-73 and ride through bars 74-75, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 56-58, 60-62 and 64-66, and 5 more places -- 22.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    56                                               57
    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......
CC |x-----------X-----------X-----------X-----------|X-----------X-----------X-----------X-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x---x---x---------x-x-x-x---x---x---------------|------x-x-x-x---x---x---------x-x-x-x---x---x---|
Blood Of The Scribe -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 39.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- L -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Blood Of The Scribe?

205 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Blood Of The Scribe hard to play on drums?

61 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 15 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Blood Of The Scribe?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 39.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED