CHAINSAW BLOOD · Vaundy

123 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 3:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-32, 34-40 and 58-64, and 5 more places -- 37.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 147 BPM
CHAINSAW BLOOD · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 17, 23, 24, 25, 69, 70 and 9 more.

LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 147 BPM
BARS 23-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 147 BPM
BARS 69-73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 147 BPM
BARS 96-98 · LANDS ON BAR 99 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 10 sections: 95 keep time, 16 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-16.

PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesICEKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is CHAINSAW BLOOD?

147 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 CHAINSAW BLOOD hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 CHAINSAW BLOOD?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 17, 23, 24, 25, 69, 70 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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