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Blankenship · Diiv

Blankenship · Diiv
EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove A -- Chorus
0 / 156 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 76 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blankenship on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-32, toms through bars 33-40, ride through bars 41-56, hi-hat through bars 57-96, ride through bars 97-112 and hi-hat through bars 113-132, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Blankenship -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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, I -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 46-97 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Bars 97-133 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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