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Blood · Anthrax

EXERCISE 6 OF 82
Groove B -- Part B
125 / 220 BARS COVERED
0 / 82 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART D
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART S
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesGHSJM+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 16
LINK · 7
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blood on drums

220 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 7:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
220
LENGTH
7:02
DIFFICULTY
76/100

toms through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-48, snare through bars 49-52, hi-hat through bars 53-60, toms through bars 61-64 and snare through bars 65-68, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-36, 53 and 55, and 13 more places -- 29.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xx--xx--xx--xx--|
Blood -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 9, 28, 40, 52, 60, 64 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 25-40 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Blood?

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 hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

220 bars, about 7:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Blood?

15 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 9, 28, 40, 52, 60, 64 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 220 BARS ANALYSED