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Blood For Blood · Machine Head

EXERCISE 30 OF 63
Groove U
67 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART AC
PART AG
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesMCACALE+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blood For Blood on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 4:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
76/100

ride through bars 1-18, hi-hat through bars 19-26, toms through bars 27-30, hi-hat through bars 31-46, ride through bars 47-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-60, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-33, 35-37 and 39-41, and 4 more places -- 18.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Blood For Blood -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 5, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 45 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- M -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-80 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-19 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Bars 15-31 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Blood For Blood?

114 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 For Blood hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 16 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 For Blood?

15 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 5, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED