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Blind · Lifehouse

EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove B -- Chorus
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INTRO
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART S8
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBCGS8S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blind on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 4:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-20, ride through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-42 and ride through bars 43-58, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 21-23 and 25-27, and 6 more places -- 41.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x-----|
Blind -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 20, 42, 65, 66 and 74.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- B, C -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 5-24 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 55-67 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Blind?

92 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 hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Blind?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 20, 42, 65, 66 and 74.

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