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BLACKOUT · Turnstile

EXERCISE 19 OF 44
Join Part J to Chorus 2 (bars 73-75)
87 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play BLACKOUT on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-58, snare through bars 59-60, hi-hat through bars 61-90, silence through bars 91-95, toms through bars 96-97 and hi-hat through bars 98-115.

The beat

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.

    46
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---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 11 times: bars 44, 52, 74, 82, 88, 96 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- F, A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 19-45 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 71-90 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part N and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 96-107 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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