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Blood // Water · Grandson

EXERCISE 6 OF 14
Groove E -- Part E
100 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART B
OUTRO
7 groovesABECS11+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blood // Water on drums

132 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on ride, snare, floor tom and kick.

15 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
15/100

toms through bars 1-25, snare through bars 26-51, toms through bars 52-59, snare through bars 60-77, ride through bars 78-93 and toms through bars 94-101, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-25, 35-67 and 77, and 2 more places -- 59.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|
Blood // Water -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- A, B -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part E and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Blood // Water?

154 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 // Water hard to play on drums?

15 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED