Soaked in Blood · Infection of the Dying

178 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 128 BPM, 4:49 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 34-40 and 60-66, and 2 more places -- 19.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
SOAKED IN BLOOD · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 8, 17, 29, 33, 41 and 26 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

178 bars across 25 sections: 108 keep time, 32 are fills and 10 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-58.

PART A
PART R
CHORUS 4
PART J
PART AQ
OUTRO 2
13 groovesFJROP+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Soaked in Blood?

128 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Soaked in Blood hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 84 exercises over 23 sittings, about 28 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 Soaked in Blood?

25 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 8, 17, 29, 33, 41 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED
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