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Bloodstained Field · Distortion

EXERCISE 8 OF 103
Groove D -- Part D
93 / 268 BARS COVERED
0 / 103 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
PART H
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART AL
PART AT
OUTRO 2
14 groovesNHGATAL+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 18
LINK · 16
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bloodstained Field on drums

268 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 6:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
268
LENGTH
6:17
DIFFICULTY
73/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-32, ride through bars 33-38, toms through bars 39-40, ride through bars 41-46 and toms through bars 47-48, and 21 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-38 and 41-43, and 9 more places -- 11.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------x---------------|
RD |----x---x---x-------x---x---x---|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x---x-------x-x-----x-------x---|
Bloodstained Field -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 16, 39, 40, 47, 56 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 83 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N, G -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 10-33 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 45-57 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bloodstained Field?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Bloodstained Field hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

268 bars, about 6:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 83 exercises over 23 sittings, about 27 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 Bloodstained Field?

19 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 16, 39, 40, 47, 56 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 268 BARS ANALYSED