Blind Spell · Shaman

155 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 59-79, 121-141 and 143-147, and 1 more place -- 32.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BLIND SPELL · BAR 60
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 14, 16, 24, 43, 80 and 6 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 7 sections: 137 keep time and 12 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-79.

CHORUS
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAGILNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blind Spell?

145 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 Spell hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 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 Blind Spell?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 14, 16, 24, 43, 80 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
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