Blood And Iron · Bathory

263 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 8:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
263
LENGTH
8:25
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-19, 21 and 33, and 18 more places -- 54.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BLOOD AND IRON · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 84, 85, 100, 112, 113, 197 and 4 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 84-85 · LANDS ON BAR 86 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 250-253 · LANDS ON BAR 254 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

263 bars across 13 sections: 180 keep time, 11 are fills, 55 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 143-196.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART I
OUTRO
9 groovesBIDES4+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blood And Iron?

125 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 Blood And Iron hard to play on drums?

38 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

263 bars, about 8:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Blood And Iron?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 84, 85, 100, 112, 113, 197 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 263 BARS ANALYSED
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