Bleed Me An Ocean BETTER · Acid Bath

154 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 130 BPM, 7:17 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
8/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
7:17
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41, 43 and 51, and 6 more places -- 11.7% 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 BETTER · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 12, 16, 18 and 14 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 11 sections: 42 keep time, 20 are fills, 1 is a stop and 77 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-72.

PART A
PART J
CHORUS
PART AA
CHORUS 2
PART AA
BREAK
8 groovesS11YAAJA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bleed Me An Ocean BETTER?

130 BPM, in 8/4, 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 BETTER hard to play on drums?

45 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 7:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 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 BETTER?

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 12, 16, 18 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
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