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Blinded · As I Lay Dying

EXERCISE 6 OF 78
2-bar fill at bar 7
53 / 165 BARS COVERED
0 / 78 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK 2
BREAK 2
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 17
LINK · 8
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blinded on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
57/100

snare through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-8, snare through bars 9-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-39, snare through bars 40-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-54, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Blinded -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- Q, L -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-17 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 9-22 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-41 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-50 -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-60 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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