Blood To Bleed · Rise Against

149 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 125 BPM, 3:12 of playing on crash, ride, snare and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-14, 17-22 and 41-46, and 3 more places -- 31% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BLOOD TO BLEED · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 15, 16, 23, 24, 47, 48 and 3 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 8 sections: 42 keep time, 9 are fills, 69 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 97-104.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBES7S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blood To Bleed?

125 BPM, in 3/4, 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 To Bleed hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Blood To Bleed?

2 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 15, 16, 23, 24, 47, 48 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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