ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bloodwork on drums

66 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 3:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 81 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 66
LENGTH: 3:13
DIFFICULTY: 77/100

ride through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-23, snare through bars 24-25, hi-hat through bars 26-38, toms through bars 39-40 and ride through bars 41-44, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7, 17-20 and 33-36, and 1 more place -- 22.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5                                6
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-x-|x-------x---x---x-------x-x-x-x-|
RD |--------------------------------|----x---------------x-----------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x-----xxx---x-----xxx---|
BD |x---x-x-------x-x---x-x---x---x-|x---x-x-----x-----x---x-x-----x-|

Bloodwork -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 21, 22, 23, 24, 28 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Bars 3-12 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
Through Part F and the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Bars 39-60 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
and 1 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Bloodwork?

81 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Bloodwork hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 9 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Bloodwork?

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 21, 22, 23, 24, 28 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED