Blighted to Pine · Balmora

75 bars, 4:20, at 67 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
67 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-16 and 42-43 -- 8.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 67 BPM
BLIGHTED TO PINE · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 10, 20, 27, 32, 36 and 7 more.

LOOP · 67 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 67 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 67 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 67 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 10 sections: 36 keep time, 13 are fills, 8 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-26.

COUNT-IN
PART D
PART H
PART M
PART R
PART Z
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesAJRMZAG+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blighted to Pine?

67 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Blighted to Pine hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 95 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Blighted to Pine?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 10, 20, 27, 32, 36 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED
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