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Winter Of Blame · Steps To Heaven

Winter Of Blame · Steps To Heaven
EXERCISE 14 OF 32
Run F1 · Chorus (bars 25-43)
96 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART A
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART S8
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFBOAS8+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Winter Of Blame on drums

143 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

47 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
143
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
47/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-18, silence through bars 19-24, snare through bars 25-41 and toms through bars 42-43, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-29, 31-32 and 35, and 12 more places -- 38.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Winter Of Blame -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 33, 42, 60, 61, 69, 81 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- F, A -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-65 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S8 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Winter Of Blame?

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 Winter Of Blame hard to play on drums?

47 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 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 Winter Of Blame?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 33, 42, 60, 61, 69, 81 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED