The Sun Fired Blanks · Dark Tranquillity

153 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-52, 54-56 and 58-60, and 5 more places -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
THE SUN FIRED BLANKS · BAR 50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 7, 8, 24, 35, 74 and 152.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 152 · LANDS ON BAR 153
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 15 sections: 114 keep time, 6 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-64.

PART E
PART M
PART E
CHORUS
PART M
PART E
PART T
PART X
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesQEMTZ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Sun Fired Blanks?

145 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 The Sun Fired Blanks hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 17 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 The Sun Fired Blanks?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 7, 8, 24, 35, 74 and 152.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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