Roots Bloody Roots - Drop B · Sepultura

104 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-11, 32-35 and 60-67 -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
ROOTS BLOODY ROOTS - DROP B · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 23, 43, 49, 79 and 80.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 79-80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 18 sections: 70 keep time, 5 are fills, 6 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-67.

CHORUS
PART C
PART D
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART O
PART R
OUTRO 2
13 groovesBCDUO+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Roots Bloody Roots - Drop B?

120 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 Roots Bloody Roots - Drop B hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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 Roots Bloody Roots - Drop B?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 23, 43, 49, 79 and 80.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Sepultura drum parts

EVERY SEPULTURA CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →