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Bloodstains · Agent Orange

Bloodstains · Agent Orange
EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Groove A -- Outro
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OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bloodstains on drums

80 bars at 181 BPM -- fast, and 1:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
181 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
1:46
DIFFICULTY
50/100

toms through bars 1-20, ride through bars 21-22, toms through bars 23-24, ride through bars 25-28, toms through bars 29-48 and ride through bars 49-50, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-20 and 29-48 -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
FT |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-x---x-x-------|
Bloodstains -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 56.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Bloodstains?

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

Is Bloodstains hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 1:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, 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 Bloodstains?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 56.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED