Blood on the sheets · Violent Vira

66 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 95% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 10-16 and 18-36, and 2 more places -- 95.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BLOOD ON THE SHEETS · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 17 and 37.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 5 sections: 61 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-36.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
3 groovesAS2S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blood on the sheets?

80 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 on the sheets hard to play on drums?

48 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 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 on the sheets?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 17 and 37.

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