Block Of Flats · Loathe, Static Dress

186 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 5:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
5:38
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-52 -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BLOCK OF FLATS · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 53, 54, 55, 56, 59, 60 and 22 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 53-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 59-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

186 bars across 16 sections: 137 keep time, 28 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-52.

CHORUS
PART R
PART I
PART AL
PART AO
PART AT
OUTRO 2
14 groovesAIUALR+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Block Of Flats?

132 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 Block Of Flats hard to play on drums?

57 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 5:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Block Of Flats?

14 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 53, 54, 55, 56, 59, 60 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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