BLOOD STAINED · CAUTION

130 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 2:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 41-47, 49-55 and 57-62 -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 205 BPM
BLOOD STAINED · BARS 41-42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 24 more.

LOOP · 205 BPM
BARS 9-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 16 sections: 68 keep time, 30 are fills, 14 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-55.

PART S5
CHORUS
PART O
PART R
PART V
PART AD
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesIVADANO+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is BLOOD STAINED?

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

Is BLOOD STAINED hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 STAINED?

15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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