Bloodline · Northlane

161 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 3:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-7, 9-23 and 25-28, and 1 more place -- 22.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BLOODLINE · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 72, 90, 91, 92, 93 and 6 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 90-95 · LANDS ON BAR 96 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 128 · LANDS ON BAR 129
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 11 sections: 92 keep time, 12 are fills, 35 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-30.

CHORUS
PART I
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART I
OUTRO
9 groovesALIGF+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bloodline?

195 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 Bloodline hard to play on drums?

58 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Bloodline?

3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 72, 90, 91, 92, 93 and 6 more.

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