Raining Blood #2 · Slayer

174 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 2:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-54, 87 and 91, and 3 more places -- 21.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 240 BPM
RAINING BLOOD #2 · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 2, 76, 88, 142, 144 and 10 more.

LOOP · 240 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 144 · LANDS ON BAR 145

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

174 bars across 15 sections: 115 keep time, 16 are fills, 8 are stops and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-54.

PART C
PART D
PART F
PART F
PART D
PART M
PART L
OUTRO 2
9 groovesGDCFL+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Raining Blood #2?

240 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 Raining Blood #2 hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 Raining Blood #2?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 2, 76, 88, 142, 144 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED
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