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Block Of Flats · Loathe, Static Dress

Block Of Flats · Loathe, Static Dress
EXERCISE 22 OF 78
Groove R -- Part R
108 / 186 BARS COVERED
0 / 78 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R
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
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 5
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Block Of Flats on drums

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.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
5:38
DIFFICULTY
57/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-52, hi-hat through bars 53-64, ride through bars 65-68, hi-hat through bars 69-105, snare through bars 106-114 and hi-hat through bars 115-116, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Block Of Flats -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- A, AL -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AO -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 59-97 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through Part R -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 73-93 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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