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for whom the bell tolls (easy drums) · Moons of Mercury

EXERCISE 1 OF 19
Groove D -- Outro
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PART B
OUTRO
4 groovesDBS1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play for whom the bell tolls (easy drums) on drums

143 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-122, toms through bars 123-139 and silence through bars 140-143.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-15, 17 and 19, and 32 more places -- 54.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    15
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
for whom the bell tolls (easy drums) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 43, 55, 59, 63, 83, 87 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- D, G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Break -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is for whom the bell tolls (easy drums)?

120 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 for whom the bell tolls (easy drums) hard to play on drums?

55 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 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 for whom the bell tolls (easy drums)?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 43, 55, 59, 63, 83, 87 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED