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Stalked By The Blind · whateveridecidetocallit

Stalked By The Blind · whateveridecidetocallit
EXERCISE 10 OF 96
Groove H
200 / 366 BARS COVERED
0 / 96 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 11
CHORUS
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 9
PART AO
CHORUS 11
10 groovesFTAOIAB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 12
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stalked By The Blind on drums

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.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
349
LENGTH
11:37
DIFFICULTY
63/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-6, hi-hat through bars 7-91, kick and crashes through bars 92-94, toms through bars 95-96 and hi-hat through bars 97-146, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Stalked By The Blind -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 72 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 -- F -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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