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Bloodline · Northlane

EXERCISE 30 OF 36
Run I2 · Part I (bars 120-140)
135 / 161 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 4
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bloodline on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-32, snare through bars 33-44, silence through bars 45-48, hi-hat through bars 49-73, silence through bars 74-80 and toms through bars 81-111, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---------------|----------------|
HH |o-x-X-x-----x-X-|x-X-X-x---x-x-X-|
SD |--------X-------|--------X-------|
BD |x-----x---x-----|x---x-----x-----|
Bloodline -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 72, 90, 91, 92, 93 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 24-56 -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-45 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 71-88 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 120-154 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED