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Paved in Blood · Heavy//Hitter

Paved in Blood · Heavy//Hitter
EXERCISE 1 OF 53
Groove C -- Part C (a two-bar phrase)
0 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 28 BARS LIT
PART C
PART J
PART L
CHORUS
PART S8
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesQCJLAB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Paved in Blood on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-10, snare through bars 11-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, toms through bars 29-36, snare through bars 37-59 and hi-hat through bars 60-61, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-6, 9-16 and 40, and 6 more places -- 24.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5                                                6
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x--------------x--x--x--|
BD |x-----------x-----------------x-----x-----x-----|------x-----x-----x-----------x-----x-----------|
Paved in Blood -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 30, 32, 34, 36, 56, 60 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- C, Q -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-42 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 52-62 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and Part S -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Paved in Blood?

133 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 Paved in Blood hard to play on drums?

58 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Paved in Blood?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 30, 32, 34, 36, 56, 60 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED