Bloodlines · Dethklok

82 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 62-64, and 2 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BLOODLINES · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 24, 28, 32 and 9 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 21-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 32-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 16 sections: 40 keep time, 15 are fills, 8 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-12.

PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART S7
PART S11
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
14 groovesGCBS11S7+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bloodlines?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Bloodlines hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 Bloodlines?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 24, 28, 32 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED
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