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Blood To Bleed · Rise Against

EXERCISE 1 OF 15
Groove B -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blood To Bleed on drums

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

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-14, snare through bars 15-16, ride through bars 17-22, snare through bars 23-40 and ride through bars 41-46, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x---x-----x-|
Blood To Bleed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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