Blow Out · Radiohead

153 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 4:19 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieElectronic120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-7, 10-13 and 18-23, and 6 more places -- 28.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BLOW OUT · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 14, 24, 32, 40, 48 and 5 more.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 152 · LANDS ON BAR 153
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 7 sections: 122 keep time, 11 are fills, 10 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 130-151.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBQIKO+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blow Out?

142 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 Out hard to play on drums?

55 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Blow Out?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 14, 24, 32, 40, 48 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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