Blinded By Fear · At The Gates

79 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:37
DIFFICULTY
94/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-10, 15-18 and 27-29, and 3 more places -- 37.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BLINDED BY FEAR · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 14, 22, 26, 30, 34, 38 and 7 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 14 sections: 52 keep time, 13 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-10.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART D
PART G
PART L
CHORUS 4
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCDLGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blinded By Fear?

120 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 Blinded By Fear hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 93 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 2:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 By Fear?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 14, 22, 26, 30, 34, 38 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED
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