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In The Blood · Annihilator

EXERCISE 4 OF 37
Run S41 · Part S4 (bars 7-9)
66 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S4
PART S4
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In The Blood on drums

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.

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
32/100

silence through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-8, snare through bars 9-26, ride through bars 27-36, silence through bars 37-39 and toms through bars 40-41, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|x---------------|
HF |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
In The Blood -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- C, F, E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 7-30 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 26-69 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part I -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 45-65 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 62-80 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 79-104 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED