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Hot Blood · Kaleo

EXERCISE 27 OF 57
Groove O
78 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
PART K
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART Q
PART R
PART S11
OUTRO 2
12 groovesCS11FDZ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hot Blood on drums

132 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-16, toms through bars 17-18, snare through bars 19-34, hi-hat through bars 35-48 and toms through bars 49-51, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-33, 53-59 and 101-107, and 1 more place -- 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.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Hot Blood -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 24, 26, 50, 92, 99, 100 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- I, K, Q -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 8-61 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 14-44 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-61 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 57-80 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part Q and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hot Blood?

148 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 Hot Blood hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 Hot Blood?

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 24, 26, 50, 92, 99, 100 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED