Let The Blood Run Red · Bewitched

139 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-39 and 57-63, and 3 more places -- 30.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 145 BPM
LET THE BLOOD RUN RED · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 32 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 4-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 10 sections: 84 keep time, 38 are fills, 5 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-39.

PART A
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHMAYC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Let The Blood Run Red?

145 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 Let The Blood Run Red hard to play on drums?

57 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Let The Blood Run Red?

12 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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