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Blood, Fire, Death · Bathory

EXERCISE 25 OF 77
Groove H
183 / 319 BARS COVERED
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CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART AC
CHORUS 5
20 groovesGACIMA+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 6
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blood, Fire, Death on drums

319 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 10:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
319
LENGTH
10:17
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-10, kick and crashes through bars 11-12, silence through bars 13-14, toms through bars 15-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-62, and 25 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-61, 93-107 and 139-157, and 3 more places -- 35.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    36
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |o----o-----o----o----o-----o----o----o-----o----o----o-----o----|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|
Blood, Fire, Death -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 15, 16, 18, 27, 28, 30 and 35 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-17 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part S4 and Part A -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Break 2 and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Blood, Fire, Death?

124 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, Fire, Death hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

319 bars, about 10:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 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, Fire, Death?

13 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 15, 16, 18, 27, 28, 30 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 319 BARS ANALYSED