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Blackout · Asian Kung-Fu Generation

EXERCISE 1 OF 56
Groove L -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blackout on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
5:14
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 3-18, ride through bars 19-24, hi-hat through bars 25-42, ride through bars 43-57, hi-hat through bars 58-106 and ride through bars 107-123, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    60
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-o-x-o-x-o-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Blackout -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- L, O -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-26 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 26-59 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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