Blockade · Battleaxe

116 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 4:57 of playing on crash, ride, snare, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11-12 and 14, and 11 more places -- 45.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BLOCKADE · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 10, 52 and 69.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 12 sections: 42 keep time, 3 are fills, 8 are stops and 61 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-85.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART S10
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBS12HS10S1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blockade?

120 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Blockade hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 86 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Blockade?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 10, 52 and 69.

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