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EXERCISE 1 OF 54
Groove Y -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
0 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 48 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART A
PART F
PART F
PART V
CHORUS
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesYFVAN+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Blister Exists (TSV) on drums

126 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 5:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8 and snare through bars 9-126.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 54-77 and 102-125 -- 38.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    54                                                               55
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------x---------------------------------------|
RD |--------------------------------------------------------x-------|----------------------------------------------------------------|
SD |x---------------x-------x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x---------------|x-------x-------x---------------x---x---x---x---x--x-x--x--x-x--|
BD |x---------------x-------x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x---------------|x-------x-------x-------x---x---x---x---x---x---x--x-x--x--x-x--|
The Blister Exists (TSV) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 13, 21, 29, 33, 34, 35 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- Y, F -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-14 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-17 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-22 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Blister Exists (TSV)?

95 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 Blister Exists (TSV) hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 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 The Blister Exists (TSV)?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 13, 21, 29, 33, 34, 35 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED