his blood will spill · JESUS A

125 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65-80 -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
HIS BLOOD WILL SPILL · BAR 65
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 and 11 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 16 sections: 64 keep time, 17 are fills, 9 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-80.

PART F
PART I
PART M
CHORUS
PART W
PART AB
CHORUS 2
BREAK
15 groovesS14UABFI+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is his blood will spill?

145 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 his blood will spill hard to play on drums?

58 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 15 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 his blood will spill?

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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