Blood On Your Hands · Arch Enemy

171 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 37-43 and 71-77, and 1 more place -- 16.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 3, 44, 51, 60, 86, 93 and 10 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

171 bars across 23 sections: 120 keep time, 17 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-85.

PART D
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART M
PART O
PART D
PART AB
14 groovesHODMAB+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blood On Your Hands?

150 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 Your Hands hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 On Your Hands?

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 3, 44, 51, 60, 86, 93 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED
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