Blindsides · Car Bomb

155 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 192 BPM, 3:45 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-22, 24 and 26, and 3 more places -- 8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 192 BPM
BLINDSIDES · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 10, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 26 more.

LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BARS 16-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 17 sections: 61 keep time, 32 are fills, 16 are stops and 30 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 96-102.

CHORUS
PART J
PART J
PART AH
CHORUS 2
PART BB
PART J
PART BJ
OUTRO 2
13 groovesCJS17AHBJ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blindsides?

192 BPM, in 5/4, 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 Blindsides hard to play on drums?

64 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Blindsides?

21 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 10, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
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