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Soaked in Blood · Infection of the Dying

EXERCISE 1 OF 110
Groove F -- Chorus
0 / 178 BARS COVERED
0 / 110 PASSED · 35 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART R
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART J
PART AQ
OUTRO 2
13 groovesFJROP+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 25
LAND · 25
RUN · 2
JOIN · 22
LINK · 10
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Soaked in Blood on drums

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.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
85/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-45, ride through bars 46-49, snare through bars 50-87, ride through bars 88-91 and snare through bars 92-111, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1...............2...............3...............
CC |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-------x-------x---------------x-------x-------|
Soaked in Blood -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 84 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- F, J -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-30 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 28-34 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part P -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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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