Bleed · Malcolm Todd, Omar Apollo

84 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 73% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-9, 11 and 13-17, and 17 more places -- 73.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BLEED · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 4 sections: 79 keep time and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-44.

CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bleed?

125 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 Bleed hard to play on drums?

58 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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