Blinded by Light, Enlightened by Darkness · Necrophobic

163 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-27 and 114-128 -- 21.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BLINDED BY LIGHT, ENLIGHTENED BY DARKNESS · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 28, 44, 48, 73, 81, 85 and 10 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 7 sections: 126 keep time, 16 are fills, 6 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-27.

CHORUS
PART G
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBGJS1MFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blinded by Light, Enlightened by Darkness?

160 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 by Light, Enlightened by Darkness hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 4:05 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, 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 by Light, Enlightened by Darkness?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 28, 44, 48, 73, 81, 85 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED
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