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Blood Junkie · Lamb Of God

EXERCISE 8 OF 68
Groove B -- Part B
90 / 195 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART Z
PART AF
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesIACAFDAK+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blood Junkie on drums

195 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 156 BPM, 4:28 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-48, hi-hat through bars 49-56, snare through bars 57-80, ride through bars 81-88 and snare through bars 89-97, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-40, 45-48 and 51, and 6 more places -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x---x---x-x-|
Blood Junkie -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 28, 31, 32 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 7-24 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Blood Junkie?

156 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Junkie hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 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 Junkie?

15 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 28, 31, 32 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED