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Make It Bleed · Whitechapel

EXERCISE 21 OF 82
Groove O -- Part O (a two-bar phrase)
55 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 82 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART AA
PART AG
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesEGAGOZ+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Make It Bleed on drums

136 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
84/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-28, snare through bars 29-33, ride through bars 34-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-55, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 52-54 and 124-136 -- 13.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    124
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Make It Bleed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 6, 12, 16, 17, 18, 20 and 35 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- Z -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-19 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part O -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Make It Bleed?

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

Is Make It Bleed hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Make It Bleed?

22 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 6, 12, 16, 17, 18, 20 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED