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Block of Flats · Loathe

EXERCISE 12 OF 74
Groove J -- Part J (a two-bar phrase)
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BREAK
PART S5
PART J
PART T
PART W
PART J
PART AI
PART AN
PART AR
PART AU
CHORUS
PART S17
OUTRO
17 groovesBAJWTAU+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
JOIN · 14
LINK · 8
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Block of Flats on drums

156 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
156
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-14, silence through bars 15-24, hi-hat through bars 25-74, snare through bars 75-79 and hi-hat through bars 80-85, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 118-124, 126-132 and 134-137 -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    118
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---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 45 times: bars 24, 25, 28, 29, 30, 31 and 39 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- BA, T -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-26 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 30-66 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part S5 -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part S5 and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 35-47 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part T -- 4 exercises, about 29 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, 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 Block of Flats?

14 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 24, 25, 28, 29, 30, 31 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED