Reign in Blood · Slayer

1337 bars at 214 BPM -- fast, and 26:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
214 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
1337
LENGTH
26:00
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-40, 58-64 and 66-73, and 48 more places -- 18.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 214 BPM
REIGN IN BLOOD · BAR 35
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

93 fills to learn, played 229 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 33, 41, 45 and 223 more.

LOOP · 214 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 214 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 214 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 214 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34

89 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

1337 bars across 117 sections: 828 keep time, 232 are fills, 55 are stops and 92 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 731-746.

45 groovesKHIWF+40Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Reign in Blood?

214 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 Reign in Blood hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

1337 bars, about 26:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 291 exercises over 76 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Reign in Blood?

93 fills to learn, played 229 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 33, 41, 45 and 223 more.

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