BLUEPRINTS FOR IDOL GENOCIDE · Psycho-Frame

107 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57-59, 63 and 65-67, and 1 more place -- 7.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BLUEPRINTS FOR IDOL GENOCIDE · BAR 57
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16 and 34 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 9-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 16-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 15 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 12 sections: 54 keep time, 40 are fills, 3 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-72.

PART B
PART K
PART AA
PART AF
CHORUS
PART AT
OUTRO
11 groovesANAFKAAAT+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is BLUEPRINTS FOR IDOL GENOCIDE?

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 BLUEPRINTS FOR IDOL GENOCIDE hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 15 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 BLUEPRINTS FOR IDOL GENOCIDE?

13 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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