Stalked By The Blind · whateveridecidetocallit

349 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 11:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
349
LENGTH
11:37
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-11, 13-17 and 23, and 30 more places -- 31.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
STALKED BY THE BLIND · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 76 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 28, 35, 47 and 70 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 4-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

366 bars across 30 sections: 214 keep time, 77 are fills, 18 are stops and 30 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-17.

CHORUS 4
CHORUS 9
PART AO
10 groovesFTAOIAB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stalked By The Blind?

120 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 Stalked By The Blind hard to play on drums?

63 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

349 bars, about 11:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Stalked By The Blind?

23 fills to learn, played 76 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 28, 35, 47 and 70 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 349 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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