Bleached Bones · Marduk

163 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 5:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 45, 47 and 49, and 18 more places -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 129 BPM
BLEACHED BONES · BARS 65-66
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 16, 21, 22, 24, 64, 92 and 18 more.

LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 129 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 16 sections: 70 keep time, 24 are fills, 48 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-33.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART R
PART T
OUTRO 2
8 groovesAKTQN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bleached Bones?

129 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 Bleached Bones hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 5:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 Bleached Bones?

6 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 16, 21, 22, 24, 64, 92 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED
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