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BLUEPRINTS FOR IDOL GENOCIDE · Psycho-Frame

EXERCISE 1 OF 55
Groove AN -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play BLUEPRINTS FOR IDOL GENOCIDE on drums

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.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
83/100

snare through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-4, toms through bars 5-7, snare through bars 8-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20 and snare through bars 21-22, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    57
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x-----xx--------x-------|
BLUEPRINTS FOR IDOL GENOCIDE -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- AN -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AT, AF -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-54 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 8-32 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part AA -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part AA and Part AF -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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