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Lower the Blade · Car Bomb

EXERCISE 12 OF 94
Groove L -- Part L
68 / 208 BARS COVERED
0 / 94 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT
PART I
PART L
PART O
PART I
PART J
PART AU
CHORUS 3
PART E
OUTRO
15 groovesHIAUOE+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
JOIN · 16
LINK · 11
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lower the Blade on drums

208 bars at 194 BPM -- fast, and 4:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
194 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
208
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-24, toms through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-96 and toms through bars 97-114, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 14 and 19, and 20 more places -- 11.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    45
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-------o-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |----x-----x-----|
Lower the Blade -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 10, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 41 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 72 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 -- I, H -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-98 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-49 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 15-23 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 19-43 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part O -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lower the Blade?

194 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Lower the Blade hard to play on drums?

51 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

208 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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 Lower the Blade?

21 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 10, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 208 BARS ANALYSED