Blissful End · Varials

121 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-12, 17-19 and 49-51 -- 8.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BLISSFUL END · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 13, 14, 15, 20, 23 and 12 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 13-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 19 sections: 59 keep time, 18 are fills, 16 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 87-94.

CHORUS
PART P
PART S
PART AH
PART C
PART AT
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
16 groovesESCAHAT+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blissful End?

170 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Blissful End hard to play on drums?

62 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Blissful End?

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 13, 14, 15, 20, 23 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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