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Bloodline (feat: Jelly Roll) · Alex Warren

EXERCISE 4 OF 15
Run B1 · Part B (bars 10-19)
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COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART D
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
7 groovesCDBS1S13+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bloodline (feat: Jelly Roll) on drums

94 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 2:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
36/100

silence through bars 1-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-20, hi-hat through bars 21-50, kick and crashes through bars 51-54, hi-hat through bars 55-78 and silence through bars 79-80, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-25, 36-40 and 46-50, and 4 more places -- 46.9% 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 |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Bloodline (feat: Jelly Roll) -- 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 94.

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 -- C, D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 10-53 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Bloodline (feat: Jelly Roll)?

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 Bloodline (feat: Jelly Roll) hard to play on drums?

36 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Bloodline (feat: Jelly Roll)?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 94.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED