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Blow Out · Radiohead

EXERCISE 1 OF 35
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blow Out on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
55/100

ride through bars 1-48, snare through bars 49-64, ride through bars 65-110, snare through bars 111-128 and ride through bars 129-153.

The beat

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.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|x-----x-x-----x-|
Blow Out -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- B, Q -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 48-136 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 42-69 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 66-98 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 96-120 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 111-153 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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