Blood Red Summer (Complete) · Coheed and Cambria

152 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 3:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-17, 19 and 21-32, and 24 more places -- 63.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 154 BPM
BLOOD RED SUMMER (COMPLETE) · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 140 and 152.

LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 140 · LANDS ON BAR 141
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 152
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 5 sections: 139 keep time, 2 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-88.

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

Questions

What BPM is Blood Red Summer (Complete)?

154 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 Red Summer (Complete) hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the speed of the hand keeping time the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Blood Red Summer (Complete)?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 140 and 152.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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