Bloodsucker · Deep Purple

93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 4:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 6-8 and 17, and 9 more places -- 53.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BLOODSUCKER · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10 and 32 more.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 86 BPM
BARS 3-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars: 53 keep time, 38 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 75-93.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bloodsucker?

86 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 Bloodsucker hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Bloodsucker?

8 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED
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