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Blow Up The Outside World - Soundgarden · Soundgarden

EXERCISE 7 OF 57
Groove A -- Part A
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0 / 57 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART Y
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCIYALAB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blow Up The Outside World - Soundgarden on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
5:27
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-26, ride through bars 27-37, hi-hat through bars 38-47, ride through bars 48-80, snare through bars 81-85 and toms through bars 86-97.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 17-19 and 24, and 2 more places -- 13.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--g----x--g|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Blow Up The Outside World - Soundgarden -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 20 and 36 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- C, AL -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-11 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 9-17 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-68 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus 3 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 20-38 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 33-54 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Blow Up The Outside World - Soundgarden?

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 - Soundgarden hard to play on drums?

63 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 32 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 45 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 - Soundgarden?

11 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 20 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED