Blood Hands · Royal Blood

139 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 38, 42 and 46, and 3 more places -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BLOOD HANDS · BARS 84-85
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 37, 41, 45, 49, 51, 63 and 3 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 10 sections: 76 keep time, 9 are fills, 31 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-21.

PART B
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART A
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
6 groovesLEBCS10+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blood Hands?

200 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 Hands hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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 Hands?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 37, 41, 45, 49, 51, 63 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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