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Body And Blood · Ghost

EXERCISE 30 OF 33
Run Q1 · Outro (bars 74-90)
91 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDHQS1BFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Body And Blood on drums

100 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-28, ride through bars 29-44, hi-hat through bars 45-61 and ride through bars 62-76, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-18, 20-22 and 26-27, and 3 more places -- 24.7% 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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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x-----|
Body And Blood -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 23, 24, 25, 28, 42, 54 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-47 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 54-77 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Body And Blood?

111 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 Body And Blood hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Body And Blood?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 23, 24, 25, 28, 42, 54 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED