Brighter Side Of Suffering · As Blood Runs Black

197 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 125 BPM, 4:44 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 12 more places -- 12.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BRIGHTER SIDE OF SUFFERING · BAR 9
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

33 fills to learn, played 79 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 73 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 16-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

29 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

197 bars across 22 sections: 68 keep time, 79 are fills, 19 are stops and 9 are silent.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART D
CHORUS 4
PART BS
PART CA
OUTRO 2
15 groovesFCAYDBS+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Brighter Side Of Suffering?

125 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Brighter Side Of Suffering 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 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

197 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 91 exercises over 32 sittings, about 25 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 Brighter Side Of Suffering?

33 fills to learn, played 79 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 73 more.

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