Blow · Ed Sheeran

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-16, 22-28 and 42-48 -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BLOW · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 5, 7, 17, 19, 29 and 18 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 12 sections: 36 keep time, 24 are fills, 3 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-16.

PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGJDS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blow?

90 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 Blow hard to play on drums?

59 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Blow?

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 5, 7, 17, 19, 29 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED
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