Blinding Faith · Knocked Loose

102 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 2:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 88-90, and 1 more place -- 10% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BLINDING FAITH · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 29, 30, 56 and 5 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 29-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 14 sections: 54 keep time, 11 are fills, 20 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

PART A
PART E
PART J
PART I
PART P
PART S
CHORUS
PART AD
PART AF
PART A
OUTRO
12 groovesZAPES+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blinding Faith?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Blinding Faith hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Blinding Faith?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 29, 30, 56 and 5 more.

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