Roots Bloody Roots · Sepultura

102 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 29-32 and 45, and 2 more places -- 24.2% 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 · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 46, 57, 73, 77 and 78.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 77-78 · LANDS ON BAR 79 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 16 sections: 70 keep time, 5 are fills, 6 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-43.

CHORUS
PART B
PART D
PART B
CHORUS 4
PART N
PART R
OUTRO 2
11 groovesABUNH+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Roots Bloody Roots?

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 hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

102 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Roots Bloody Roots?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 46, 57, 73, 77 and 78.

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