Blackout · Asian Kung-Fu Generation

179 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 5:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
5:14
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38, 59-65 and 67-73, and 4 more places -- 25.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BLACKOUT · BAR 60
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 15 more.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BARS 27-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BARS 41-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

179 bars across 14 sections: 134 keep time, 21 are fills, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-17.

PART B
PART A
PART O
CHORUS
PART U
PART X
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesLOBXU+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blackout?

137 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 Blackout hard to play on drums?

64 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 5:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Blackout?

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED
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