Bloodcraving · Mortician

139 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 27, 29 and 31, and 6 more places -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BLOODCRAVING · BARS 79-80
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 18, 26, 30, 34, 46, 50 and 10 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 14 sections: 95 keep time, 16 are fills, 6 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 80-101.

PART D
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFJDIS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bloodcraving?

185 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 Bloodcraving hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Bloodcraving?

4 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 18, 26, 30, 34, 46, 50 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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