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Built On Your Blood · HALF ME

EXERCISE 18 OF 47
Run E1 · Part E (bars 13-16)
29 / 65 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
PART H
PART L
PART E
PART P
PART S9
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBPEWH+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Built On Your Blood on drums

65 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 2:24 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
2:24
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-32, ride through bars 33-43, toms through bars 44-55 and snare through bars 56-65.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 57, and 2 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x-----------x-x-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-----|
Built On Your Blood -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 28, 32 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-41 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 11-17 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 21-29 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 27-42 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Built On Your Blood?

108 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 Built On Your Blood hard to play on drums?

75 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?

65 bars, about 2:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, 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 Built On Your Blood?

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 28, 32 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED