The Brighter Side of Suffering · As Blood Runs Black

194 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 4:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
194
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 11 more places -- 11.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
THE BRIGHTER SIDE OF SUFFERING · BAR 6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

35 fills to learn, played 95 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 12 and 89 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10

31 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

199 bars across 22 sections: 64 keep time, 95 are fills, 16 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-64.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AK
PART AS
PART Q
OUTRO
14 groovesFBVQASJ+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Brighter Side of Suffering?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Brighter Side of Suffering hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

194 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 92 exercises over 31 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Brighter Side of Suffering?

35 fills to learn, played 95 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 12 and 89 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 194 BARS ANALYSED
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