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Alligator Blood · Bring Me The Horizon

EXERCISE 9 OF 88
Groove C
86 / 221 BARS COVERED
0 / 88 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART G
PART A
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
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Alligator Blood on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
221
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
56/100

snare through bar 1, toms through bars 2-3, snare through bars 4-41, toms through bars 42-47, snare through bars 48-131 and hi-hat through bars 132-135, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    133
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---xx|
Alligator Blood -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- L, AK, H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-192 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part S3 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part S3 and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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