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Blood On Your Hands · Arch Enemy

EXERCISE 17 OF 78
Run D2 · Part D (bars 28-36)
91 / 171 BARS COVERED
0 / 78 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 18
LINK · 7
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blood On Your Hands on drums

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.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
77/100

toms through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, toms through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-68, toms through bars 69-70 and hi-hat through bars 71-140, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x--x--x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Blood On Your Hands -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-31 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 46-52 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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