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Bridge To Cross · Black Label Society

EXERCISE 1 OF 27
Groove C -- Chorus
0 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 33 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART L
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCELS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bridge To Cross on drums

84 bars, 5:20, at 63 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
63 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-84.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-11 and 14-19, and 10 more places -- 41.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 20, 28, 32, 40, 42, 44 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- C, E -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 59-80 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Bridge To Cross?

63 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Bridge To Cross hard to play on drums?

47 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Bridge To Cross?

4 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 20, 28, 32, 40, 42, 44 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED