Blast Beats Practice · Drum Practice

112 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 98-99 -- 9.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BLAST BEATS PRACTICE · BAR 98
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 110, 111 and 112.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 110-112 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 9 sections: 15 keep time, 3 are fills, 3 are stops and 91 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-5.

BREAK
CHORUS
BREAK 2
BREAK 4
BREAK 6
9 groovesS3S4S2S6S8+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blast Beats Practice?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Blast Beats Practice hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Blast Beats Practice?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 110, 111 and 112.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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