Blackout · Scorpions

164 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 14-23 and 26-27, and 10 more places -- 35.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BLACKOUT · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 71 and 72.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 71-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 8 sections: 138 keep time, 2 are fills, 12 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 140-164.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCFGS5S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blackout?

180 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 Blackout hard to play on drums?

49 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Blackout?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 71 and 72.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED
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