Blood · Bad Omens

148 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 19 more places -- 15.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BLOOD · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 24, 26, 28 and 26 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 16 sections: 79 keep time, 32 are fills, 15 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-90.

PART A
PART E
PART G
PART E
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART Z
PART AE
PART AD
PART AK
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBEOGZ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blood?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Blood hard to play on drums?

56 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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?

16 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 24, 26, 28 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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