Blood Oracle · vanrfrapas

113 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 2:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:21
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 35 and 37-39, and 9 more places -- 30.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 192 BPM
BLOOD ORACLE · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 16, 32, 36, 40, 56, 59 and 9 more.

LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 8 sections: 68 keep time, 15 are fills and 23 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-31.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEADHKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blood Oracle?

192 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Blood Oracle hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Oracle?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 16, 32, 36, 40, 56, 59 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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