Bleed · Torena

91 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-49, 51-57 and 59-64, and 2 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BLEED · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 18, 26, 30 and 13 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 114 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

91 bars across 7 sections: 55 keep time, 19 are fills, 7 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-85.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART H
PART C
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesLCHSS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bleed?

114 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?

51 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Bleed?

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 18, 26, 30 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED
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