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It Was Written In Blood · Bring Me The Horizon

EXERCISE 12 OF 67
Groove B -- Part B
81 / 154 BARS COVERED
0 / 67 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART G, PART P
PART B
PART G
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play It Was Written In Blood on drums

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.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
48/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-25, snare through bars 26-32, hi-hat through bars 33-49, snare through bars 50-52 and toms through bars 53-56, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- Y, J -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 12-50 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Bars 19-65 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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