ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blank Title on drums

94 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 95 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 94
LENGTH: 3:57
DIFFICULTY: 73/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-52, snare through bars 53-70 and toms through bars 71-72, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-27 and 29-31 -- 6.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25                               26
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
RD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|----x-------x-------x-------x---|
SD |--------x-----xx--------x-------|--------x---------x-----x-----xx|
BD |x-----x-------------x-x---------|----x-x-----x-x-----x-x---------|

Blank Title -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 8, 28, 40, 52, 53, 54 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- AK -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Bars 9-77 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
Through Part C and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
Through Part G and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
and 10 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Blank Title?

95 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Blank Title hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 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 Blank Title?

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 8, 28, 40, 52, 53, 54 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED