A Bloodsoaked Symphony · Whitechapel

191 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 4:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39, 42-43 and 47-48, and 11 more places -- 13% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 172 BPM
A BLOODSOAKED SYMPHONY · BAR 47
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 72 times: bars 17, 20, 21, 28, 29, 33 and 66 more.

LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

191 bars across 25 sections: 42 keep time, 72 are fills, 35 are stops and 29 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 140-146.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART Q
PART Y
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART AT
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
22 groovesJBEQYS1+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Bloodsoaked Symphony?

172 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 A Bloodsoaked Symphony 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

191 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 21 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 A Bloodsoaked Symphony?

19 fills to learn, played 72 times: bars 17, 20, 21, 28, 29, 33 and 66 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 191 BARS ANALYSED
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