Raining Blood (E Standard) · Slayer

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.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO

240 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

166

LENGTH

2:46

DIFFICULTY

82/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, silence through bars 4-30, hi-hat through bars 31-48, ride through bars 49-60, hi-hat through bars 61-68 and ride through bars 69-76, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-46, 85-86 and 89-90 -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 2, 47, 48, 68, 79 and 16 more.

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- O, G -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
3. Bars 1-51 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
4. Through Part E and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
5. Through Part H and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
6. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
8. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
9. and 7 more sittings after that.