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Bonded By Blood · Exodus

EXERCISE 15 OF 58
Groove K
90 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
PART B
CHORUS
PART L
PART B
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesHBLZFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bonded By Blood on drums

133 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 3:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
79/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-16, toms through bars 17-19, hi-hat through bars 20-34, toms through bars 35-43 and ride through bars 44-51, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-22, 24-26 and 28-30, and 18 more places -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---x---|
Bonded By Blood -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 5, 13, 17, 18, 40 and 19 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part L -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 34-42 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 39-55 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bonded By Blood?

157 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Bonded By Blood hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 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 Bonded By Blood?

16 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 5, 13, 17, 18, 40 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED