Out For Blood · Sum 41

124 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-12, 15 and 21-22, and 7 more places -- 19.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
OUT FOR BLOOD · BARS 11-12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 20, 26, 36, 44, 48, 54 and 5 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 15 sections: 87 keep time, 11 are fills, 2 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-13.

PART D
PART H
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART F
PART T
OUTRO
11 groovesLDHOF+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Out For Blood?

140 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 Out For Blood hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 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 Out For Blood?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 20, 26, 36, 44, 48, 54 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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