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Blood Ocean · Dethklok

EXERCISE 6 OF 17
Join Chorus to Part D (bars 32-34)
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0 / 17 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCDFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blood Ocean on drums

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

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
72/100

snare through bars 2-3, hi-hat through bars 4-5, snare through bars 6-7, hi-hat through bars 8-17, snare through bars 18-19 and hi-hat through bars 20-21, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    4
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |----------------o---------------o---------------o---------------|
SD |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|
Blood Ocean -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 30-45 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 57-82 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED