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bloodthirster (fixed) · Angelmaker

EXERCISE 26 OF 79
Run H1 · Part H (bars 13-21)
111 / 164 BARS COVERED
0 / 79 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART H
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART W
CHORUS 4
PART AG
OUTRO 2
11 groovesMALQAGC+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play bloodthirster (fixed) on drums

164 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
66/100

snare through bars 1-45, ride through bars 46-48, snare through bars 49-98, hi-hat through bars 99-102, snare through bars 103-107 and ride through bars 108-110, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-41, 50 and 52-54, and 6 more places -- 22% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
bloodthirster (fixed) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 2, 6, 15, 23, 51, 55 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- M, AL -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-58 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 3-76 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 13-42 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is bloodthirster (fixed)?

165 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 bloodthirster (fixed) hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

164 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 18 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 bloodthirster (fixed)?

15 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 2, 6, 15, 23, 51, 55 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED