Portrait of a Blank Slate · Lovejoy

150 bars at 161 BPM -- fast, and 3:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
161 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-47, 49-51 and 53-55, and 5 more places -- 14.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 161 BPM
PORTRAIT OF A BLANK SLATE · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 40, 56, 60, 62, 64, 68 and 17 more.

LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

150 bars across 21 sections: 95 keep time, 23 are fills and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-31.

PART B
PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART W
OUTRO
11 groovesJNLEF+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Portrait of a Blank Slate?

161 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Portrait of a Blank Slate hard to play on drums?

57 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 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Portrait of a Blank Slate?

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 40, 56, 60, 62, 64, 68 and 17 more.

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