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Blood Brothers · Papa Roach

EXERCISE 1 OF 42
Groove G -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blood Brothers on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, snare through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-52, snare through bars 53-62, hi-hat through bars 63-90 and snare through bars 91-116, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- G -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I, A -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-32 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-53 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 59-111 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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