Blinding Lights · The Weeknd

131 bars at 171 BPM -- fast, and 3:04 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulElectronic150 BPM and upFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
171 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 15 and 17, and 37 more places -- 41.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 171 BPM
BLINDING LIGHTS · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 7 sections: 119 keep time and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-65.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDS1S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blinding Lights?

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 hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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