Bloodstone · Judas Priest

113 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-14, 18-19 and 21-23, and 15 more places -- 24.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 113 BPM
BLOODSTONE · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 12, 36, 39, 48, 60, 63 and 8 more.

LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 12 sections: 73 keep time, 14 are fills and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-91.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART P
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCGPS1J+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bloodstone?

113 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Bloodstone hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Bloodstone?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 12, 36, 39, 48, 60, 63 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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