Bleed The Freak · Alice in Chains

107 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 4:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-23, 34-40 and 50-56, and 2 more places -- 43% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BLEED THE FREAK · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 4, 16, 67, 71, 72 and 2 more.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 97 BPM
BARS 71-73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 91 · LANDS ON BAR 92
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 16 sections: 78 keep time, 8 are fills, 7 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 76-90.

PART A
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesIMUAS13+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bleed The Freak?

97 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 The Freak hard to play on drums?

63 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 The Freak?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 4, 16, 67, 71, 72 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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