Blood Freak · Necrophagia

123 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 5:44 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
5:44
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 28, 50 and 72.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 8 sections: 52 keep time, 3 are fills, 19 are stops and 42 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
6 groovesS8IBDL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blood Freak?

120 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Freak hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 5:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Freak?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 28, 50 and 72.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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