Blind · Placebo

159 bars at 167 BPM -- fast, and 3:49 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
167 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
28/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 64% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-38, 55-85 and 87-97, and 3 more places -- 63.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 167 BPM
BLIND · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

159 bars across 6 sections: 138 keep time, 4 are fills and 11 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-21.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blind?

167 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Blind hard to play on drums?

28 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 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.

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