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A Bloodsoaked Symphony · Whitechapel

EXERCISE 18 OF 87
Fill at bar 33 (a small one)
61 / 191 BARS COVERED
0 / 87 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE BREAK 5
COUNT-IN
BREAK 5
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 5
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Bloodsoaked Symphony on drums

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.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-23, ride through bars 24-27, kick and crashes through bars 28-30, silence through bars 31-32 and kick and crashes through bars 33-34, and 25 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    47
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
A Bloodsoaked Symphony -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 67 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 -- J, I -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-23 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-31 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-46 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 57-74 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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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