Blood // Water · Grandson

132 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on ride, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieElectronic150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
15/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-25, 35-67 and 77, and 2 more places -- 59.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 154 BPM
BLOOD // WATER · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 12 sections: 123 keep time and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-67.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART B
OUTRO
7 groovesABECS11+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blood // Water?

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 // Water hard to play on drums?

15 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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