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blasted Way · Bullgrim

EXERCISE 10 OF 31
Run D1 · Part D (bars 12-21)
123 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART P
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
7 groovesIPLMD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play blasted Way on drums

152 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 6:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
6:05
DIFFICULTY
37/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-11, kick and crashes through bars 12-13, toms through bars 14-47, kick and crashes through bars 48-49 and toms through bars 50-91, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 20-21, 24-31 and 51-59, and 2 more places -- 27.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    20               21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x-------x---|----x---------x-|
SD |----x-x-----x-x-|------x-----xxxx|
T1 |------x-------x-|------x---------|
BD |xxxx----xxxx----|xxxx----xxxx----|
blasted Way -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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, P -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 22-44 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 42-50 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 74-98 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is blasted Way?

100 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 blasted Way hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 6:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED