Born of Bloodlust (Drop A) · Duvet

274 bars at 218 BPM -- fast, and 5:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
218 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
274
LENGTH
5:02
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 30-35, 38-43 and 86-91, and 4 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 218 BPM
BORN OF BLOODLUST (DROP A) · BARS 30-31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21 and 54 more.

LOOP · 218 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 218 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 218 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 218 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

274 bars across 32 sections: 139 keep time, 60 are fills, 31 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-52.

PART N
PART N
PART N
PART S22
PART AH
15 groovesPNABHE+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Born of Bloodlust (Drop A)?

218 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 Born of Bloodlust (Drop A) hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

274 bars, about 5:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Born of Bloodlust (Drop A)?

20 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21 and 54 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 274 BARS ANALYSED
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