Bleeding Profusely · Gorgasm

56 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 1:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
56
LENGTH
1:35
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 15 and 19, and 2 more places -- 20.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BLEEDING PROFUSELY · BAR 13
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 2, 6, 16, 17, 34, 35 and 4 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 34-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

56 bars across 8 sections: 36 keep time, 10 are fills, 3 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-51.

PART A
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGAKLS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bleeding Profusely?

132 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 Bleeding Profusely hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

56 bars, about 1:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 12 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Bleeding Profusely?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 2, 6, 16, 17, 34, 35 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 56 BARS ANALYSED
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