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Only Saints Bleed Black · Plague Of the Saints

EXERCISE 12 OF 56
Groove E
98 / 163 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS, PART O
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Only Saints Bleed Black on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
88/100

ride through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-18, ride through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-22, ride through bars 23-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-26, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--X---X---X---X-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Only Saints Bleed Black -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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