Snowblind · System of a Down

169 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 4:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57-80 and 134-160 -- 32.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 154 BPM
SNOWBLIND · BAR 58
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 44 and 16 more.

LOOP · 154 BPM
BARS 20-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BARS 96-97 · LANDS ON BAR 98 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 10 sections: 121 keep time, 22 are fills, 1 is a stop and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 134-161.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART M
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
5 groovesEJMAS10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Snowblind?

154 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 Snowblind hard to play on drums?

56 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Snowblind?

6 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 44 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED
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