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Raining Blood #2 · Slayer

EXERCISE 4 OF 42
Groove G -- Chorus
62 / 174 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART C
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Raining Blood #2 on drums

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.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
74/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, silence through bars 4-38, hi-hat through bars 39-54, kick and crashes through bars 55-56, ride through bars 57-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-76, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    39
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Raining Blood #2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 53-77 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 100-118 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 110-136 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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