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Roots Bloody Roots - Drop B · Sepultura

EXERCISE 5 OF 42
Fill at bar 23 (a small one)
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0 / 42 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART D
CHORUS
PART C
PART D
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART O
PART R
OUTRO 2
13 groovesBCDUO+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Roots Bloody Roots - Drop B on drums

104 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-11, snare through bars 12-19, hi-hat through bars 20-27, toms through bars 28-31 and hi-hat through bars 32-35, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-11, 32-35 and 60-67 -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x--x--|
Roots Bloody Roots - Drop B -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 23, 43, 49, 79 and 80.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-24 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Bars 26-32 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 36-48 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 46-52 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 50-68 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Roots Bloody Roots - Drop B?

120 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 Roots Bloody Roots - Drop B hard to play on drums?

59 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 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 Roots Bloody Roots - Drop B?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 23, 43, 49, 79 and 80.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED