Blitzkrieg Bop · The Ramones

96 bars at 177 BPM -- fast, and 2:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

PunkRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
177 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:10
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 67% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-16, 25-40 and 49-64, and 1 more place -- 66.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 177 BPM
BLITZKRIEG BOP · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 96.

LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 96
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 8 sections: 80 keep time, 1 is a fill and 10 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesABCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blitzkrieg Bop?

177 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 hard to play on drums?

55 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 2:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Blitzkrieg Bop?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 96.

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