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sir bladder the 9th · hippocratic oath

sir bladder the 9th · hippocratic oath
EXERCISE 20 OF 81
Fill at bar 44 and 68
102 / 183 BARS COVERED
0 / 81 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
CHORUS
PART G
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART AD
OUTRO 2
10 groovesAGADIM+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 11
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play sir bladder the 9th on drums

183 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
5:38
DIFFICULTY
86/100

hi-hat through bars 1-17, silence through bars 18-20, hi-hat through bars 21-44, ride through bars 45-52, hi-hat through bars 53-67 and ride through bars 68-76, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 93-99, and 3 more places -- 23.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
sir bladder the 9th -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 8, 16, 28, 32, 36, 40 and 37 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-29 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part I and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 73-86 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is sir bladder the 9th?

130 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 sir bladder the 9th hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 5:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 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 sir bladder the 9th?

18 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 8, 16, 28, 32, 36, 40 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED