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his blood will spill · JESUS A

EXERCISE 6 OF 70
Groove M -- Part M (a two-bar phrase)
27 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
PART F
PART I
PART M
CHORUS
PART W
PART AB
CHORUS 2
BREAK
15 groovesS14UABFI+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 5
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play his blood will spill on drums

125 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
58/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-12, snare through bars 13-40, ride through bars 41-44, snare through bars 45-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-64, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65-80 -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    65
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x----x--x--xxx|
his blood will spill -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- AB, F -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 5-13 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-26 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-33 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-42 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 39-45 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 43-82 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is his blood will spill?

145 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 his blood will spill hard to play on drums?

58 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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 his blood will spill?

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED