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Blasphemy · Bring Me The Horizon

EXERCISE 34 OF 42
Join Part A to Part D (bars 131-133)
135 / 161 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART D
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART A
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART D
PART A
PART D
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCDABS5+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blasphemy on drums

161 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 4:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
41/100

snare through bars 2-17, hi-hat through bars 18-34, silence through bars 35-41, snare through bars 42-57, kick and crashes through bars 58-73 and hi-hat through bars 74-89, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 33 more places -- 23.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    130
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|
Blasphemy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 25, 33, 81, 89, 105, 113 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- C, B -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 32-90 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 91-103 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 105-125 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 129-147 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Blasphemy?

154 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 Blasphemy hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Blasphemy?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 25, 33, 81, 89, 105, 113 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED