Blind and Lost · Nailbomb

62 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 1:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

MetalElectronic120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
1:59
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 77% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-9, 14-25 and 30-41, and 1 more place -- 77.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BLIND AND LOST · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 13, 26, 27, 28 and 29.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 26-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

62 bars across 5 sections: 51 keep time, 6 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-61.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blind and Lost?

125 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 Blind and Lost hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 1:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Blind and Lost?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 13, 26, 27, 28 and 29.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED
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