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Message In Blood · Pantera

EXERCISE 5 OF 78
Groove I -- Part I
41 / 134 BARS COVERED
0 / 78 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
CHORUS
PART F
PART I
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART S
PART AB
PART AD
OUTRO
8 groovesDADIKS+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 9
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Message In Blood on drums

134 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 85 BPM, 5:13 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
5:13
DIFFICULTY
79/100

snare through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-22, hi-hat through bars 23-38 and ride through bars 39-47, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 39-41, and 5 more places -- 17.9% 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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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x-x-------------|
Message In Blood -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12 and 44 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-26 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Message In Blood?

85 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Message In Blood hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 5:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 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 Message In Blood?

21 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED