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Blastbeat Falafel · Igorrr

EXERCISE 12 OF 54
Run C1 · Part C (bars 1-12)
47 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
PART I
PART L
CHORUS
PART I
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART AF
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesQLICAF+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blastbeat Falafel on drums

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 3:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
84/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-27, toms through bars 28-30, ride through bars 31-40, hi-hat through bars 41-55 and toms through bars 56-58, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 40-43, and 1 more place -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|
Blastbeat Falafel -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 11, 12, 20, 24, 32, 36 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- I, L -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-21 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part L -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Blastbeat Falafel?

106 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Blastbeat Falafel hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 Blastbeat Falafel?

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 11, 12, 20, 24, 32, 36 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED