Blasphemous Preachers · PuDGE

135 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
5:24
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17 and 21, and 5 more places -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BLASPHEMOUS PREACHERS · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 5, 7, 8, 16, 75, 77 and 4 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 132-135 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 15 sections: 59 keep time, 14 are fills, 47 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 118-131.

PART C
PART F
PART H
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S8
PART U
PART V
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesJS8VHC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blasphemous Preachers?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Blasphemous Preachers hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 5:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 Blasphemous Preachers?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 5, 7, 8, 16, 75, 77 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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