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Keep Your Blessings · ORTHODOX

EXERCISE 1 OF 65
Groove S
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0 / 65 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT
PART D
PART J
PART V
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Keep Your Blessings on drums

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.

52 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
124
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-10, toms through bars 11-19, hi-hat through bars 20-26, snare through bars 27-30 and hi-hat through bars 31-33, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 3, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12 and 28 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 -- S, AG -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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