Pitiful · Blindside

98 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-25 and 34-53 -- 40.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
PITIFUL · BARS 6-7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 82 and 83.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 82-83 · LANDS ON BAR 84 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 8 sections: 83 keep time, 3 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-24.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDHGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pitiful?

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 Pitiful hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Pitiful?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 82 and 83.

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