bleeding sky · Haken

119 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50, 52 and 56, and 1 more place -- 9.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BLEEDING SKY · BAR 52
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 16, 37, 41, 42, 48, 54 and 1 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 14 sections: 22 keep time, 7 are fills, 8 are stops and 77 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 89-92.

COUNT-IN
PART A
BREAK
PART H
PART O
CHORUS
OUTRO
14 groovesS11S14S4OA+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is bleeding sky?

150 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 bleeding sky hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 bleeding sky?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 16, 37, 41, 42, 48, 54 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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