Keep Your Blessings · ORTHODOX

124 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34, 40 and 50, and 8 more places -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
KEEP YOUR BLESSINGS · BAR 78
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 3, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12 and 28 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 10-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 12 sections: 38 keep time, 34 are fills, 36 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-69.

PART D
PART J
PART K
PART AD
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesAGJVDA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Keep Your Blessings?

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 Keep Your Blessings hard to play on drums?

52 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 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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 Keep Your Blessings?

13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 3, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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