Blood Brothers · Papa Roach

149 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:30 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 45-51, and 4 more places -- 21.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BLOOD BROTHERS · BAR 47
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 24, 28, 36, 44, 52, 62 and 13 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 110 · LANDS ON BAR 111

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 9 sections: 81 keep time, 19 are fills and 39 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-12.

PART A
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGIAYDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blood Brothers?

170 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 Brothers hard to play on drums?

53 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?

149 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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?

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 24, 28, 36, 44, 52, 62 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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