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Blow · Ed Sheeran

EXERCISE 23 OF 35
2-bar fill at bar 36 and 1 more
63 / 79 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blow on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-5 and hi-hat through bars 6-79.

The beat

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.

    10               11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |-g--x--ggg--x--g|-g--x--ggg--x--g|
BD |x--x----x--x----|x--x----x--x----|
Blow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- G, D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-10 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 10-35 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 39-68 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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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