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Blame · Korn

EXERCISE 1 OF 27
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 27 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART N
PART R
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBNRSS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blame on drums

102 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 3:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-47, snare through bars 48-54, hi-hat through bars 55-66, ride through bars 67-75 and silence through bars 76-78, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 21-23, and 5 more places -- 25.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- B -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part R and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Blame?

107 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 Blame hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Blame?

6 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED