Blinded · As I Lay Dying

165 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-47, 71-72 and 83, and 8 more places -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BLINDED · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 39, 40, 48 and 24 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 21 sections: 90 keep time, 30 are fills, 23 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-32.

PART L
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART AE
PART AM
CHORUS 3
15 groovesQLIAEAM+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blinded?

200 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 Blinded hard to play on drums?

57 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 17 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 Blinded?

13 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 39, 40, 48 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED
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