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Mist As Scarlet as Fresh Blood · sepulchral fog

EXERCISE 1 OF 28
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART E
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
12 groovesCELAK+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mist As Scarlet as Fresh Blood on drums

223 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 6:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
223
LENGTH
6:52
DIFFICULTY
74/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, silence through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-129, kick and crashes through bars 130-132, hi-hat through bars 133-189 and silence through bars 190-198, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 41-56 and 83-107, and 2 more places -- 38.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
Mist As Scarlet as Fresh Blood -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 59, 64 and 108.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-60 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 61-135 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 4 and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 149-200 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Mist As Scarlet as Fresh Blood?

130 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 Mist As Scarlet as Fresh Blood hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

223 bars, about 6:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 Mist As Scarlet as Fresh Blood?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 59, 64 and 108.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 223 BARS ANALYSED