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Blinded By Fear · At The Gates

EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove C -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blinded By Fear on drums

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.

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

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

hi-hat through bars 3-10, ride through bars 11-14, hi-hat through bars 15-18, ride through bars 19-22, hi-hat through bars 23-34 and ride through bars 35-38, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-15 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-27 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-44 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 39-63 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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