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Raining Blood (D Standard) · Slayer

EXERCISE 3 OF 42
Groove F -- Part F
32 / 166 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 30 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, OUTRO 2
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
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 (D Standard) on drums

166 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 2:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
76/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, silence through bars 4-30, hi-hat through bars 31-46, kick and crashes through bars 47-48, ride through bars 49-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-68, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-46, 79 and 83, 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.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Raining Blood (D Standard) -- 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, 68, 80, 134, 136 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 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 45-69 -- 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 92-110 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 102-128 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Raining Blood (D Standard)?

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 (D Standard) hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 2:46 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 (D Standard)?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 2, 68, 80, 134, 136 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED