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Bloodbath · Special Move

Bloodbath · Special Move
EXERCISE 23 OF 41
Join Chorus 2 to Part I (bars 24-26)
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0 / 41 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART I
PART A
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART K
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDIFKA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bloodbath on drums

82 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 2:06 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:06
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-45, snare through bars 46-61, hi-hat through bars 62-74, snare through bars 75-78, hi-hat through bars 79-80 and toms through bars 81-82.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 21-24 and 67-69, and 2 more places -- 18.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Bloodbath -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 12, 25, 46, 53, 58 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I, F -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-13 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-24 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-46 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part S6 and Part K -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Bloodbath?

156 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 Bloodbath hard to play on drums?

55 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 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 2:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Bloodbath?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 12, 25, 46, 53, 58 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED