Blunt Force Blues · Lamb Of God

194 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 4:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
194
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 43-45, 47-48 and 91-93, and 3 more places -- 8.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 188 BPM
BLUNT FORCE BLUES · BARS 44-45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 8, 14, 24, 25, 32, 33 and 59 more.

LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 188 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BARS 32-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 9 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

194 bars across 20 sections: 79 keep time, 65 are fills, 22 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 184-193.

PART M
PART U
PART AC
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART BB
PART W
OUTRO 2
15 groovesDUACAYM+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blunt Force Blues?

188 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Blunt Force Blues hard to play on drums?

60 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

194 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 18 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Blunt Force Blues?

17 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 8, 14, 24, 25, 32, 33 and 59 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 194 BARS ANALYSED
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