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Bloodstone · Judas Priest

EXERCISE 25 OF 43
2-bar fill at bar 63
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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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bloodstone on drums

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.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-11 and hi-hat through bars 12-113.

The beat

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.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x----x--x----|
Bloodstone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- C, G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 40-66 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part P -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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