Blood · Sweet Pill

52 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 2:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
52
LENGTH
2:19
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-8, 26-28 and 32, and 1 more place -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BLOOD · BARS 2-3
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 24, 25, 29, 39, 40, 41 and 8 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 39-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 43-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

52 bars across 4 sections: 34 keep time, 14 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-23.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBIGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blood?

90 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 hard to play on drums?

60 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

52 bars, about 2:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Blood?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 24, 25, 29, 39, 40, 41 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 52 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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