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The Bleeding · Five Finger Death Punch

EXERCISE 8 OF 48
Groove F -- Part F (a two-bar phrase)
88 / 169 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART L
CHORUS 4
PART F
OUTRO
7 groovesDBILS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Bleeding on drums

169 bars at 159 BPM -- fast, and 4:15 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
159 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-48, snare through bars 49-56, hi-hat through bars 57-88, snare through bars 89-96 and toms through bars 97-112, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 27 and 29, and 24 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
The Bleeding -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 32, 40, 80, 88, 112, 120 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- D, I -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-145 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 40-51 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Bleeding?

159 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 The Bleeding hard to play on drums?

51 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 The Bleeding?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 32, 40, 80, 88, 112, 120 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED