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Snowbloodd · Erra

EXERCISE 19 OF 71
Join Chorus to Part J (bars 37-39)
68 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART J
PART C
PART J
CHORUS
PART J
PART W
CHORUS 2
PART AH
PART AP
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesOWAPDC+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 10
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Snowbloodd on drums

138 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-7, snare through bars 8-19, hi-hat through bars 20-26, snare through bars 27-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-42, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 27-29, 31-33 and 35-36, and 4 more places -- 14.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    27                                               28
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------x--x--|
BD |x--------x--x-----x--------x--x-----x-----x--x--|x--------x--x-----x--------x--------x--x--------|
Snowbloodd -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 18, 22, 30, 34, 42, 50 and 22 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 -- O -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part J -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 35-46 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part W -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Snowbloodd?

125 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 Snowbloodd hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 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 Snowbloodd?

15 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 18, 22, 30, 34, 42, 50 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED