Blinding Ignorance · Torture

82 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 3:29 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 16, 25, 29, 30, 32 and 13 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 11 sections: 30 keep time, 19 are fills, 1 is a stop and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-9.

PART F
PART H
PART M
PART E
PART T
CHORUS
PART S9
OUTRO
BREAK 2
11 groovesS11WFHT+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blinding Ignorance?

120 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Blinding Ignorance hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Blinding Ignorance?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 16, 25, 29, 30, 32 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED
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