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Bloom · Angelmaker

EXERCISE 12 OF 53
Run S51 · Break 2 (bars 35-36)
46 / 118 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK 2
COUNT-IN
PART A
PART C
BREAK 2
PART I
PART T
CHORUS
BREAK 4
PART S12
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesZIS1XA+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bloom on drums

118 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
80/100

silence through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-28, toms through bars 29-30, snare through bars 31-32 and silence through bars 33-34, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 68-83 -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |------------x-----x-----x---x-x-|
BD |x---x-------------x-------------|
Bloom -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 36, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- Z, X -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 31-37 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 35-41 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part T -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part T -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bloom?

120 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 Bloom hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 Bloom?

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 36, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED