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Roots Bloody Roots · Sepultura

EXERCISE 5 OF 42
Join Chorus to Part B (bars 7-9)
47 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART D
PART B
CHORUS 4
PART N
PART R
OUTRO 2
11 groovesABUNH+6Fill 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 on drums

102 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
70/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, toms through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-32 and snare through bars 33-40, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 29-32 and 45, and 2 more places -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    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 -- 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 46, 57, 73, 77 and 78.

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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, H -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 27-48 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Bars 47-54 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 57-71 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Roots Bloody Roots?

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 hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

102 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Roots Bloody Roots?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 46, 57, 73, 77 and 78.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED