Blood Eagle · Periphery

181 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Progressive120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
5:59
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-4, 11-12 and 43-44, and 6 more places -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BLOOD EAGLE · BARS 3-4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 2, 39, 42, 59, 60, 61 and 15 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 59-67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 9 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

181 bars across 12 sections: 116 keep time, 21 are fills, 21 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 151-175.

CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART AB
PART AI
PART H
OUTRO
8 groovesCAIHRAB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blood Eagle?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Blood Eagle hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 5:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 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 Eagle?

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 2, 39, 42, 59, 60, 61 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED
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