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Bloodmeat · Protest The Protagonist

EXERCISE 8 OF 64
2-bar fill at bar 6
34 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART G
PART N
PART V
PART AC
PART N
PART AQ
PART AU
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
16 groovesWNGBFAC+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 6
JOIN · 16
LINK · 1
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bloodmeat on drums

126 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
80/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-5, ride through bars 6-7, snare through bars 8-18, ride through bars 19-20 and hi-hat through bars 21-28, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39, 99-100 and 103-104, and 2 more places -- 7.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    99
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------X-----------------------|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
Bloodmeat -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 6, 7, 14, 15, 25, 32 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- W -- 1 exercise, about 12 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AQ -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part B and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 14-29 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bloodmeat?

120 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 Bloodmeat hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Bloodmeat?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 6, 7, 14, 15, 25, 32 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED