The Blood full · Signs Of The Swarm

153 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO

140 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

153

LENGTH

4:21

DIFFICULTY

70/100

silence through bars 1-13, kick and crashes through bars 14-16, silence through bars 17-20, snare through bars 21-31, hi-hat through bars 32-36 and kick and crashes through bars 37-39, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43, 45 and 47, and 10 more places -- 9.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    43
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
BD |x-------x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|

16 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 34, 60, 64, 66, 68, 74 and 19 more.

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- N -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
3. Bars 14-22 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
8. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
9. and 13 more sittings after that.