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My Beloved, My Despair · Bury Me With You

My Beloved, My Despair · Bury Me With You
EXERCISE 32 OF 72
Fill at bar 61
103 / 150 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART N
PART B
PART H
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART B
BREAK 2
PART AH
CHORUS 4
11 groovesFBNHAH+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Beloved, My Despair on drums

150 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:31 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
49/100

snare through bars 2-17, toms through bars 18-20, hi-hat through bars 21-25, snare through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-35 and snare through bars 36-53, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 36 and 42, and 9 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x---x-x-x---x-|
My Beloved, My Despair -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 20, 21, 29 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- F, B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-55 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 26-37 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 44-72 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is My Beloved, My Despair?

170 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 My Beloved, My Despair hard to play on drums?

49 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 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 My Beloved, My Despair?

16 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 20, 21, 29 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED