Rain Of Blood · Black Roses

125 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockHip Hop / Reggae150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 14-15 and 21-23, and 26 more places -- 45.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
RAIN OF BLOOD · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 76 and 125.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 125
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 15 sections: 97 keep time, 2 are fills, 9 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-124.

PART E
CHORUS 3
PART E
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
8 groovesDES1S2S14+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rain Of Blood?

150 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 Rain Of Blood hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Rain Of Blood?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 76 and 125.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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