It Was Written In Blood · Bring Me The Horizon

154 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 66, 68 and 70, and 29 more places -- 20.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
IT WAS WRITTEN IN BLOOD · BAR 74
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 21, 31, 49, 63, 64, 65 and 25 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 63-65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 17 sections: 88 keep time, 31 are fills, 11 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-10.

PART B
CHORUS
PART P
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART Z
PART Y
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
8 groovesJYZKB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is It Was Written In Blood?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is It Was Written In Blood hard to play on drums?

48 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 It Was Written In Blood?

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 21, 31, 49, 63, 64, 65 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
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