Punch Me I Bleed · Children Of Bodom

106 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 18 and 20-22, and 13 more places -- 43.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
PUNCH ME I BLEED · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 5, 6, 8, 16, 25, 33 and 15 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 7 sections: 29 keep time, 21 are fills and 48 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 80-85.

PART A
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART Y
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFMAYFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Punch Me I Bleed?

90 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Punch Me I Bleed hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 29 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 Punch Me I Bleed?

14 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 5, 6, 8, 16, 25, 33 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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