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Ten Speed (Of God's Blood & Burial) · Coheed And Cambria

EXERCISE 20 OF 46
Join Part J to Chorus (bars 58-60)
102 / 149 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, CHORUS
PART F
PART E
PART J
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHJFEW+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ten Speed (Of God's Blood & Burial) on drums

149 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
62/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-25, ride through bars 26-42, hi-hat through bars 43-61, ride through bars 62-77 and snare through bars 78-93, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-27, 30-31 and 34-35, and 9 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26               27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|--------------x-|
RD |----x---x---x---|x---x---x-------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x-----|x-x-----x-x---x-|
Ten Speed (Of God's Blood & Burial) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 43 and 13 more.

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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, E -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  3. Through Part F and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 56-78 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and Part U -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ten Speed (Of God's Blood & Burial)?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Ten Speed (Of God's Blood & Burial) hard to play on drums?

62 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 3:42 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 Ten Speed (Of God's Blood & Burial)?

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 43 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED