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The bell tolls · a picture of her

EXERCISE 20 OF 62
Groove V
62 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART U
CHORUS
PART P
PART U
PART Z
BREAK 2
PART AD
PART AH
PART AN
13 groovesCUZADAN+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The bell tolls on drums

131 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-28, hi-hat through bars 29-61, silence through bars 62-64, ride through bars 65-78 and silence through bars 79-90, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-6, 9-10 and 13-14, and 3 more places -- 10.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5                                                                6
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------|
RD |----------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------x-------------------x-------------------x---|----------------x-------------------x-------------------x-------|
BD |x-----------x---------------x-----------------------x-----------|--------x-------------------x---------------x-------------------|
The bell tolls -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 20, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AN -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part P and Part U -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part U and Part S5 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The bell tolls?

120 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 bell tolls hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 19 sittings, about 23 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 The bell tolls?

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 20, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED