The Weeknd · Blinding Lights

131 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:05 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-66, 78-80 and 83-105, and 1 more place -- 48.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 170 BPM
THE WEEKND · BAR 44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 113 and 114.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 113-114 · LANDS ON BAR 115 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 11 sections: 111 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 76-105.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGBIHD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Weeknd?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Weeknd hard to play on drums?

61 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Weeknd?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 113 and 114.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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