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Bloodline · Slayer

EXERCISE 28 OF 43
Fill at bar 50 (a small one)
88 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART G
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bloodline on drums

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.

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

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

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-18, hi-hat through bars 19-34, snare through bars 35-41, hi-hat through bars 42-50 and snare through bars 51-58, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- J -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T, G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-63 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 52-100 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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