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Bloodlines · Dethklok

EXERCISE 7 OF 49
Groove B -- Part B
19 / 82 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bloodlines on drums

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.

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
87/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, toms through bars 13-24, snare through bars 25-31, toms through bars 32-35 and silence through bars 36-41, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
BD |-xx---x--xx---x--xx---x--xx--xx-|
Bloodlines -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part S7 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-35 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-47 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part S11 and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 52-58 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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