Blink GONE (Alien Stage) · BL8M & AKUGETSU

96 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-32, 34-37 and 39-40, and 4 more places -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BLINK GONE (ALIEN STAGE) · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 17, 33, 55, 71, 87 and 95.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 87 · LANDS ON BAR 88

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 12 sections: 70 keep time, 6 are fills, 4 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-70.

PART G
CHORUS
PART C
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesOGCABS9+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blink GONE (Alien Stage)?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Blink GONE (Alien Stage) hard to play on drums?

53 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Blink GONE (Alien Stage)?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 17, 33, 55, 71, 87 and 95.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
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