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Blunt Force Blues · Lamb Of God

EXERCISE 1 OF 86
Groove U -- Part U (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 16
LINK · 10
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blunt Force Blues on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
194
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-14, snare through bars 15-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, ride through bars 34-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-40, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    44               45
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---g---x---g---|x---g---x---g---|
SD |--------x-------|--x-----x-----x-|
BD |----x-x---x---x-|----x-x---x-x---|
Blunt Force Blues -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 68 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 -- U, AY -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-27 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part S5 and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-46 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 26-60 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part U and Part AC -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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