Only Saints Bleed Black · Plague Of the Saints

163 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-39 and 42-44, and 9 more places -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
ONLY SAINTS BLEED BLACK · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 4, 16, 36, 40, 41, 49 and 23 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 40-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 14 sections: 119 keep time, 29 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-30.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART O
PART B
PART X
PART AA
CHORUS 3
9 groovesFBODAA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Only Saints Bleed Black?

200 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 Only Saints Bleed Black hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 17 sittings, about 23 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 Only Saints Bleed Black?

9 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 4, 16, 36, 40, 41, 49 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED
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