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The Bearer of Bad News · Reliqa

EXERCISE 3 OF 70
Groove K -- Chorus
12 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART D
CHORUS
PART AB
PART AL
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesKABCALD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Bearer of Bad News on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 3-7, snare through bars 8-10, hi-hat through bars 11-12, toms through bars 13-19, hi-hat through bars 20-24 and toms through bars 25-32, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 44-45, 49 and 65, and 2 more places -- 6.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    44
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
The Bearer of Bad News -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 13, 14, 16, 22, 25, 26 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- AL, C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-15 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part AB -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part AB -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part AB -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Bearer of Bad News?

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 The Bearer of Bad News hard to play on drums?

64 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?

116 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 The Bearer of Bad News?

19 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 13, 14, 16, 22, 25, 26 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED