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Blood Brothers · Iron Maiden

EXERCISE 16 OF 70
Groove J
76 / 216 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT
PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART E
PART R
PART D
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART AE
OUTRO
BREAK
13 groovesS17LAEDB+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blood Brothers on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
7:39
DIFFICULTY
50/100

ride through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-31, ride through bars 32-40, hi-hat through bars 41-48, ride through bars 49-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-80, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1.....2.....3.....4.....5.....6.....
HH |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |------------------x-----------------|
BD |x--x-----x--x--x--------------------|
Blood Brothers -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- D, E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-31 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-65 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-29 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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