Bloody Stream · Coda

142 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 30-32 and 34-35, and 15 more places -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BLOODY STREAM · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 12, 20 and 27 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 28-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 14 sections: 96 keep time, 33 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

PART E
CHORUS
PART U
PART E
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AA
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
8 groovesIEHUAA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bloody Stream?

132 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 Bloody Stream hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Bloody Stream?

10 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 12, 20 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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