Blitzkrieg Bop (Cover) · Ramones

80 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 1:52 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
1:52
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 80% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-16 and 25-72 -- 80% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 172 BPM
BLITZKRIEG BOP (COVER) · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 80.

LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 80
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 4 sections: 76 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-72.

CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blitzkrieg Bop (Cover)?

172 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 Blitzkrieg Bop (Cover) hard to play on drums?

50 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 1:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Blitzkrieg Bop (Cover)?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 80.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED
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