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ERRA. | Snowblood · ERRA. IA

ERRA. | Snowblood · ERRA. IA
EXERCISE 9 OF 80
Fill at bar 18
56 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 80 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART I
CHORUS
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART AH
PART A
PART AW
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesNVCBI+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play ERRA. | Snowblood on drums

143 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-7, snare through bars 8-19, hi-hat through bars 20-26, snare through bars 27-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-42, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 27-29, 31-33 and 35-36, and 4 more places -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    27                                               28
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------x--x--|
BD |x--------x--x-----x--------x--x-----x-----x--x--|x--------x--x-----x--------x--------x--x--------|
ERRA. | Snowblood -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 18, 22, 30, 34, 42, 50 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- N -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 35-46 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part V -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is ERRA. | Snowblood?

125 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 ERRA. | Snowblood hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 ERRA. | Snowblood?

18 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 18, 22, 30, 34, 42, 50 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED