Bad Blood · Asking Alexandria

149 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:19 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ElectronicMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-51, 93-99 and 145-147 -- 15% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAD BLOOD · BAR 45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 2, 44, 56, 66, 67 and 16 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 66-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 18 sections: 50 keep time, 22 are fills, 30 are stops and 36 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-34.

CHORUS
PART J
PART M
PART O
PART R
PART M
PART O
BREAK 3
OUTRO
13 groovesCS14OMW+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bad Blood?

180 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 Bad Blood hard to play on drums?

57 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Bad Blood?

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 2, 44, 56, 66, 67 and 16 more.

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