Alligator Blood · Bring Me The Horizon

221 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 4:19 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
221
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 30-31 and 34-36, and 20 more places -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 205 BPM
ALLIGATOR BLOOD · BAR 133
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 10, 12, 20, 24, 25, 32 and 51 more.

LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 205 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

221 bars across 16 sections: 104 keep time, 57 are fills, 42 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 206-214.

PART G
CHORUS
PART AK
PART AI
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
11 groovesLAKGAIF+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Alligator Blood?

205 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 Alligator Blood hard to play on drums?

56 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

221 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Alligator Blood?

23 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 10, 12, 20, 24, 25, 32 and 51 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 221 BARS ANALYSED
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