Blood Ocean · Dethklok

82 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-5, 8-17 and 20-21, and 3 more places -- 59.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BLOOD OCEAN · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 41.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 7 sections: 70 keep time, 1 is a fill, 5 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-33.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCDFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blood Ocean?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Ocean hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 6 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Blood Ocean?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 41.

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