Bloodline · Slayer

107 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-29, 31-33 and 36-37, and 7 more places -- 21.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BLOODLINE · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 26, 30, 34, 50, 52 and 1 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 11 sections: 75 keep time, 7 are fills, 2 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-95.

COUNT-IN
PART E
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
PART H
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJGTHE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bloodline?

118 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 Bloodline hard to play on drums?

61 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 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 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 Bloodline?

7 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 26, 30, 34, 50, 52 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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