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Watch You Bleed · Five Finger Death Punch

EXERCISE 1 OF 57
Groove D -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART R
PART T
OUTRO
11 groovesDFTAI+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Watch You Bleed on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:25 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25, snare through bars 26-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-47, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 30-36 and 52-58, and 3 more places -- 33.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Watch You Bleed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 7, 8, 17, 25, 27, 28 and 21 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 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 14-38 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 39-52 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 60-74 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Watch You Bleed?

132 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Watch You Bleed hard to play on drums?

53 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Watch You Bleed?

15 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 7, 8, 17, 25, 27, 28 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED