Bleed · Malcom Todd

90 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:53 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-20, 26-30 and 36-45, and 2 more places -- 49.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BLEED · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 11 sections: 76 keep time and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-76.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART D
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBDCS1S7Fill 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?

43 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?

90 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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