Blindfolds Asides · Protest The Protagonist

168 bars at 169 BPM -- fast, and 3:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
169 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 82, 84 and 86, and 7 more places -- 6.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 169 BPM
BLINDFOLDS ASIDES · BAR 135
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 91 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 85 more.

LOOP · 169 BPM
BARS 41-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 169 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

168 bars across 13 sections: 46 keep time, 91 are fills, 18 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

PART C
PART Z
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART BH
PART AZ
OUTRO 2
10 groovesALCAZBHZ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blindfolds Asides?

169 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 Blindfolds Asides hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Blindfolds Asides?

23 fills to learn, played 91 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 85 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED
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