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Upon This Shallow Blood · NEHEMIAH

EXERCISE 27 OF 50
Join Part J to Part M (bars 39-41)
59 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART M
CHORUS
PART F
PART H
PART J
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesBQUHF+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Upon This Shallow Blood on drums

98 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-23, ride through bars 24-32, snare through bars 33-49, silence through bars 50-52 and snare through bars 53-64, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-6, 8-10 and 12-14, and 2 more places -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x---x-x-x-------x-x-x---x-x-|
Upon This Shallow Blood -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 7, 15, 23, 32, 36, 40 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 12-27 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 24-41 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 37-49 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Upon This Shallow Blood?

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 Upon This Shallow Blood hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 Upon This Shallow Blood?

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 7, 15, 23, 32, 36, 40 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED