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Blood Hands · Royal Blood

EXERCISE 17 OF 40
Run E1 · Part E (bars 39-52)
80 / 139 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blood Hands on drums

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.

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
36/100

snare through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-21, hi-hat through bars 22-37, ride through bars 38-51, kick and crashes through bars 52-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-64, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    84                 85
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e
CC |x-----------------|------------------|
RD |------x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----|
SD |----------x-------|x-----------------|
T1 |------------------|----------x-------|
FT |------------------|----------------x-|
BD |x---------------x-|------------------|
Blood Hands -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- E, L -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 39-59 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 63-104 -- 9 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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