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Last To Bleed · Kaelith

Last To Bleed · Kaelith
EXERCISE 4 OF 93
Fill at bar 73 (a small one)
57 / 203 BARS COVERED
0 / 93 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AF
PART P
OUTRO
15 groovesZAFFPK+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 20
LINK · 9
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Last To Bleed on drums

195 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
5:44
DIFFICULTY
77/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-5, ride through bars 6-7, snare through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17 and ride through bars 18-25, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 47-56, 67-72 and 111-112, and 1 more place -- 12.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    47                               48
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----g-----------x-----------x---|----g-----------x-----------g-g-|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---------------|
Last To Bleed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 9, 17, 26, 66, 73 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 77 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 -- Z -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, AF -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-74 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part K -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Last To Bleed?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Last To Bleed hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 5:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 77 exercises over 25 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Last To Bleed?

15 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 9, 17, 26, 66, 73 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED