Blood Of My Blood · Revenge

216 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
5:56
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-30 and 61-62, and 12 more places -- 27.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BLOOD OF MY BLOOD · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 4, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 32 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 10-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

216 bars across 19 sections: 128 keep time, 38 are fills and 31 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-95.

PART A
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART AB
CHORUS 4
PART S
OUTRO
11 groovesKSABAR+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blood Of My Blood?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Of My Blood hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

216 bars, about 5:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 21 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Of My Blood?

20 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 4, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 216 BARS ANALYSED
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