Bleed Me An Ocean · Acid Bath

197 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
5:49
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 5% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 78, 80 and 88, and 7 more places -- 5.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BLEED ME AN OCEAN · BAR 94
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 24, 32, 36 and 9 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 14-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

197 bars across 19 sections: 119 keep time, 15 are fills, 37 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-71.

CHORUS
PART P
PART W
PART AN
PART AT
PART S14
PART BS
17 groovesAS14ATWAN+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bleed Me An Ocean?

130 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 Me An Ocean hard to play on drums?

54 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 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

197 bars, about 5:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Me An Ocean?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 24, 32, 36 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 197 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Acid Bath drum parts

EVERY ACID BATH CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →