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If You Are To Bloom · Hum

EXERCISE 1 OF 43
Groove E -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART H
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEMHABS8+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play If You Are To Bloom on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at a walking 99 BPM, 4:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
99 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
54/100

toms through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-28, ride through bars 29-34, hi-hat through bars 35-38, ride through bars 39-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-42, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-17, 19-25 and 27-28, and 7 more places -- 30.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|--x-----x-x---x-|
If You Are To Bloom -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 3, 4, 34, 35, 36, 40 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-56 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is If You Are To Bloom?

99 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 If You Are To Bloom hard to play on drums?

54 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 If You Are To Bloom?

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 3, 4, 34, 35, 36, 40 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED