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Bloody Stream · Coda

EXERCISE 17 OF 51
Groove L
95 / 142 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 4
PART E
CHORUS
PART U
PART E
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AA
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
8 groovesIEHUAA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bloody Stream on drums

142 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
73/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, ride through bars 21-49, hi-hat through bars 50-81 and ride through bars 82-142.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 30-32 and 34-35, and 15 more places -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-xxx-x-x-x-|
SD |----x----g--x--g|
BD |x--x------x-----|
Bloody Stream -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 12, 20 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-27 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part S -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bloody Stream?

132 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 Bloody Stream hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 Bloody Stream?

10 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 12, 20 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED