In My Blood · Shawn Mendes

72 bars, 3:50, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

ElectronicPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 37-44 and 49-72 -- 53.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 75 BPM
IN MY BLOOD · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 10 sections: 57 keep time and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 48-72.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
7 groovesFDBCH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In My Blood?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is In My Blood hard to play on drums?

32 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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