Blood Brothers · Iron Maiden

216 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 168 BPM, 7:39 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
7:39
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 17 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BLOOD BROTHERS · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 32, 36, 48, 72, 80, 84 and 7 more.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

216 bars across 17 sections: 106 keep time, 13 are fills and 73 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 130-144.

PART B
CHORUS
PART R
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART AE
OUTRO
BREAK
13 groovesS17LAEDB+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blood Brothers?

168 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Blood Brothers hard to play on drums?

50 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

216 bars, about 7:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Blood Brothers?

12 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 32, 36, 48, 72, 80, 84 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 216 BARS ANALYSED
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