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EXERCISE 16 OF 73
Groove G
38 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART D
PART H
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART X
PART U
PART AE
PART AK
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesKUAERAK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Death Blooms on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 5:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
5:13
DIFFICULTY
84/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-41, ride through bars 42-47, hi-hat through bars 48-50 and ride through bars 51-60, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-30, 33-34 and 85, and 4 more places -- 9.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29                                               30
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|x-----------------x-----------------x-----x--x--|
RD |------------------------------------------------|------x-----x-----------x-----x-----------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----------|------------------------------------------------|
SD |------------x--------x--------------x-----x-xxx-|---x--------x-----x--------x--------x-----x--x--|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|x--------x-----------x-----------x--------------|
Death Blooms -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 13, 17 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- R -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-29 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 7-14 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Death Blooms?

87 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 Death Blooms hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 5:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 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 Death Blooms?

16 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 13, 17 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED