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B.L.U.T. · Atrocity

EXERCISE 31 OF 58
Groove R
92 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT
PART E
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART S
CHORUS 5
PART S
CHORUS 6
PART U
OUTRO
9 groovesPENSU+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play B.L.U.T. on drums

127 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
5:29
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-8, snare through bars 9-33, hi-hat through bars 34-57, ride through bars 58-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-81, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 58-65, 82-89 and 123-126 -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    58                               59
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3...
CC |--------x---------------x-------|--------------------|
RD |x---x-------x---x---x-----------|--x---x-----x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------------------|
BD |x---xxxxx---xx-xxx-xxxxxx-------|--------------------|
B.L.U.T. -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- S -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N, P -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part E -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part N -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is B.L.U.T.?

90 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 B.L.U.T. hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 5:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 B.L.U.T.?

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED