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Bed of Razors · Children Of Bodom

EXERCISE 35 OF 44
Fill at bar 63 and 89 (a small one)
80 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART H
PART H
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesS12JHMP+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bed of Razors on drums

135 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 139 BPM, 5:50 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
5:50
DIFFICULTY
46/100

ride through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-6, toms through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, ride through bars 13-20 and hi-hat through bars 21-25, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20, 26 and 44-46, and 6 more places -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----------------------|
RD |------x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Bed of Razors -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 12, 39, 51 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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, H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 38-44 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 46-60 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Break -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bed of Razors?

139 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Bed of Razors hard to play on drums?

46 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 5:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Bed of Razors?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 12, 39, 51 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED