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Written In Blood · Soulreaper

Written In Blood · Soulreaper
EXERCISE 11 OF 101
Groove C (a two-bar phrase)
82 / 224 BARS COVERED
0 / 101 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
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
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 4
JOIN · 16
LINK · 10
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Written In Blood on drums

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.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
224
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
81/100

hi-hat through bars 1-41, ride through bars 42-47, toms through bars 48-49, hi-hat through bars 50-108, kick and crashes through bars 109-110 and silence through bars 111-114, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    14
    1...........2...........3...........
CC |x-----------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------|
Written In Blood -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 81 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part B and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part A and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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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