Razorblade Kiss · HIM

134 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 21-26 and 29-35, and 4 more places -- 62.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 130 BPM
RAZORBLADE KISS · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 27, 28, 54, 78 and 114.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 114 · LANDS ON BAR 115
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 14 sections: 96 keep time, 5 are fills, 2 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 80-94.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 4
PART G
CHORUS 5
BREAK
OUTRO
7 groovesBS11DGI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Razorblade Kiss?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Razorblade Kiss hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Razorblade Kiss?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 27, 28, 54, 78 and 114.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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