BLINDING LIGHTS | DRUM COVER · El Estepario Siberiano

224 bars at 171 BPM -- fast, and 5:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
171 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
224
LENGTH
5:14
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 148-154, 162-175 and 180, and 1 more place -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 171 BPM
BLINDING LIGHTS | DRUM COVER · BAR 148
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 11, 19, 27, 35, 42, 43 and 21 more.

LOOP · 171 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 171 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 171 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 171 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

224 bars across 20 sections: 143 keep time, 27 are fills, 12 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 178-212.

PART AB
PART W
OUTRO
15 groovesATWJBAB+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is BLINDING LIGHTS | DRUM COVER?

171 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 BLINDING LIGHTS | DRUM COVER hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

224 bars, about 5:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 77 exercises over 26 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 LIGHTS | DRUM COVER?

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 11, 19, 27, 35, 42, 43 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 224 BARS ANALYSED
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