Blue Blood Live · X Japan

181 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
4:01
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 23-29 and 31-35, and 11 more places -- 45.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BLUE BLOOD LIVE · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 42 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 17-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

181 bars across 13 sections: 122 keep time and 48 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-60.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART Y
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
7 groovesDSBYO+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blue Blood Live?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Blue Blood Live hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 4:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 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 Blue Blood Live?

20 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED
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