Blankenship · Diiv

156 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 3:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 14 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BLANKENSHIP · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 40, 96, 104, 140 and 156.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 156
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 9 sections: 130 keep time, 5 are fills, 8 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-95.

CHORUS
PART E
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAEIKS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blankenship?

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

Is Blankenship hard to play on drums?

61 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Blankenship?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 40, 96, 104, 140 and 156.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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