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Drown · Bring Me The Horizon

EXERCISE 12 OF 47
Fill at bar 9 and 115
75 / 124 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART S2
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBKTVO+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drown on drums

124 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-10, silence through bars 11-17, hi-hat through bars 18-26, silence through bars 27-29 and snare through bars 30-58, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 18-20 and 22-24, and 3 more places -- 22.8% 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
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |----------x---x-|
Drown -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 9, 21, 33, 37, 41, 45 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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, K -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-22 -- 5 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-53 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part O and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 69-107 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Drown?

143 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 Drown hard to play on drums?

54 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Drown?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 9, 21, 33, 37, 41, 45 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED