Bleed It Dry · Alter Bridge

251 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 168 BPM, 4:29 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
251
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 16 and 21, and 33 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BLEED IT DRY · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 51, 59, 107, 127, 129, 164 and 13 more.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 127 · LANDS ON BAR 128 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 129 · LANDS ON BAR 130

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

251 bars across 24 sections: 96 keep time, 19 are fills, 75 are stops and 42 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-9.

PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART S13
PART D
PART M
OUTRO 2
17 groovesLCS13DB+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bleed It Dry?

168 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Bleed It Dry hard to play on drums?

44 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

251 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Bleed It Dry?

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 51, 59, 107, 127, 129, 164 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 251 BARS ANALYSED
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