Written In Blood · Soulreaper

224 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 200 BPM, 3:41 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
224
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 5 and 10, and 24 more places -- 16.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
WRITTEN IN BLOOD · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 13, 16, 17, 34, 38, 44 and 21 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 44-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

224 bars across 20 sections: 134 keep time, 27 are fills, 38 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-91.

PART B
PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART AM
PART AR
PART BC
CHORUS 2
PART BK
14 groovesAABABKAR+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Written In Blood?

200 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Written In Blood hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

224 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 25 sittings, about 27 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 Written In Blood?

19 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 13, 16, 17, 34, 38, 44 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 224 BARS ANALYSED
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