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Blood · Bad Omens

EXERCISE 14 OF 79
Join Part A to Part E (bars 13-15)
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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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 9
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blood on drums

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.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
56/100

snare through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-43, hi-hat through bars 44-50, snare through bars 51-72 and toms through bars 73-74, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x---x-------|
BD |x-x---x---x-x-x-|
Blood -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- B, A -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part E and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-43 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 53-126 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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