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Blindfolds Asides · Protest The Protagonist

EXERCISE 8 OF 79
27-bar fill at bar 9
34 / 168 BARS COVERED
0 / 79 PASSED · 27 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blindfolds Asides on drums

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.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
169 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-15, snare through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-19, snare through bars 20-21, hi-hat through bars 22-27 and snare through bars 28-29, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    135
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---g---g---g---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-x---x-x-x-|
Blindfolds Asides -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- AZ, C -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part Z -- 2 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part C and Part Z -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part Z and Part AI -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 53-90 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part AI and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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