Blow Up The Outside World · Soundgarden

97 bars, 5:27, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
5:27
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-9, 12-13 and 16-20, and 3 more places -- 21.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BLOW UP THE OUTSIDE WORLD · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 10, 14, 15, 21, 26, 28 and 18 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 14-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 28-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 11 sections: 58 keep time, 24 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 88-96.

CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART W
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCWNAGAD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blow Up The Outside World?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Blow Up The Outside World hard to play on drums?

57 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 5:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Up The Outside World?

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 10, 14, 15, 21, 26, 28 and 18 more.

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