Gored · Hemophilia

135 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 5:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
5:31
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-36, 45-52 and 92-99, and 1 more place -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 98 BPM
GORED · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 2, 4, 11, 12, 14, 17 and 22 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 20 sections: 86 keep time, 28 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-36.

PART D
PART O
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART H
PART O
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
12 groovesRDOAGA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gored?

98 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 Gored hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 5:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 20 sittings, about 24 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 Gored?

14 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 2, 4, 11, 12, 14, 17 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →