Built On Your Blood · HALF ME

65 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 2:24 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
2:24
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 57, and 2 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BUILT ON YOUR BLOOD · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 28, 32 and 11 more.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars across 11 sections: 28 keep time, 17 are fills, 7 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-62.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
PART H
PART L
PART E
PART P
PART S9
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBPEWH+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Built On Your Blood?

108 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Built On Your Blood hard to play on drums?

75 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?

65 bars, about 2:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Built On Your Blood?

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 28, 32 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED
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