Blood Red · Slayer

94 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-14, 27 and 29, and 14 more places -- 29.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BLOOD RED · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 24 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 1-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 7 sections: 53 keep time, 30 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-61.

CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesIMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blood Red?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Red hard to play on drums?

77 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?

94 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 Red?

14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED
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