Synaptic Plasticity · Blotted Science

148 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 5:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
5:54
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 54 more.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 13 sections: 70 keep time, 60 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-90.

PART H
PART K
PART V
PART AA
CHORUS
OUTRO
7 groovesAIHKVAA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Synaptic Plasticity?

103 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Synaptic Plasticity hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 5:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 19 sittings, about 24 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 Synaptic Plasticity?

19 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 54 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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