In The Blood · Annihilator

116 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-14, 16-21 and 23-25, and 8 more places -- 30.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
IN THE BLOOD · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 41, 62, 63, 76, 105 and 106.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 62-63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 17 sections: 61 keep time, 7 are fills, 26 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-48.

CHORUS
PART F
PART I
PART F
PART E
PART F
PART M
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
12 groovesCFEIM+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In The Blood?

120 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 In The 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 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 In The Blood?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 41, 62, 63, 76, 105 and 106.

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