ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blinding Ignorance on drums

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.

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

TEMPO: 120 BPM
TIME: 6/4
BARS: 82
LENGTH: 3:29
DIFFICULTY: 65/100

hi-hat through bars 3-6, ride through bars 7-10, hi-hat through bars 11-46, snare through bars 47-48, hi-hat through bars 49-50 and silence through bars 51-53, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6, 22 and 24-25, and 1 more place -- 10.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    24                                   25
    1...........2...........3........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........5...........6...........
CC |------------------------------------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----x-----x-----------|
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
SD |------------------------x-----------|------------------------------------------------------x-----x-----------|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------------------|

Blinding Ignorance -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- E, C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
Through Part F and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through Part H and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part M and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part E and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through Part T and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
Through Part T and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
and 3 more sittings after that.

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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