BLACKOUT · Turnstile

115 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 2:44 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-51, 53-58 and 75-81, and 1 more place -- 22.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BLACKOUT · BAR 46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 44, 52, 74, 82, 88, 96 and 5 more.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89
LOOP · 168 BPM
BARS 96-97 · LANDS ON BAR 98 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 10 sections: 91 keep time, 11 are fills, 3 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-22.

PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART Q
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFABJQ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is BLACKOUT?

168 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?

55 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 BLACKOUT?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 44, 52, 74, 82, 88, 96 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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