Blind Life · Antimortal

149 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 20-22, 24-26 and 28-29, and 3 more places -- 9.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BLIND LIFE · BARS 20-21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 21, 29, 38, 42, 46, 50 and 15 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

159 bars across 21 sections: 89 keep time, 21 are fills, 16 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-20.

CHORUS
PART AB
PART AB
PART AS
PART AU
PART T
PART BF
OUTRO 2
18 groovesCABBFTP+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blind Life?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Life hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 83 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 23 sittings, about 26 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 Blind Life?

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 21, 29, 38, 42, 46, 50 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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