Raining Blood · 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.

Metal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

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.

LOOP · 240 BPM
RAINING BLOOD · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

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

LOOP · 240 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BARS 79-80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 91 · LANDS ON BAR 92

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

166 bars across 17 sections: 108 keep time, 22 are fills, 4 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-46.

PART D
PART E
PART H
PART K
PART P
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesGDEOX+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Raining Blood?

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 hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 85 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 47 exercises over 15 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?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED
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