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Blow Up The Outside World · Soundgarden

EXERCISE 30 OF 56
2-bar fill at bar 36
78 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART J
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART W
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCWNAGAD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blow Up The Outside World 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.

57 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
57/100

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 81-86 and ride through bars 87-97.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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, AG -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 14-68 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 31-37 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED