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Hot Blooded · Foreigner

EXERCISE 21 OF 61
Groove O -- Part O
84 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q, PART F, PART O
PART C
CHORUS
PART Q
PART F
PART O
PART Z
PART O
OUTRO
8 groovesJQOAC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 14
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hot Blooded on drums

130 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

49 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
130
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 1-14, snare through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-39, snare through bars 40-43, hi-hat through bars 44-63 and snare through bars 64-68, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 23 and 25, and 12 more places -- 14.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx-x-----|
Hot Blooded -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 14, 16, 32, 39, 40 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- J, A -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-100 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 34-47 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hot Blooded?

120 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 Blooded hard to play on drums?

49 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Blooded?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 14, 16, 32, 39, 40 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED