Hot Blood · Kaleo

132 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ElectronicMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-33, 53-59 and 101-107, and 1 more place -- 22.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 148 BPM
HOT BLOOD · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 24, 26, 50, 92, 99, 100 and 7 more.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 13 sections: 61 keep time, 13 are fills, 37 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-16.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
PART K
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART Q
PART R
PART S11
OUTRO 2
12 groovesCS11FDZ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hot Blood?

148 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 Hot Blood hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 Hot Blood?

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 24, 26, 50, 92, 99, 100 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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