beads of blood · KYOURI

83 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:46 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-4, 7 and 14-17, and 6 more places -- 46.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BEADS OF BLOOD · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 16 sections: 62 keep time, 4 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-31.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART E
CHORUS 5
PART E
OUTRO
7 groovesCES13S6S15+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is beads of blood?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is beads of 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

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