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.

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

TEMPO

170 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

131

LENGTH

3:05

DIFFICULTY

61/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-40, snare through bars 41-42, hi-hat through bars 43-80, snare through bars 81-82 and hi-hat through bars 83-112, and 2 more changes after that.

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.

    44
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-o-x-o-x-o-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|

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

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- G -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
3. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
4. Through Part D and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
5. Through Part E and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
9. and 2 more sittings after that.