Blunt Force to the Lungs · vlqg

41 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 1:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
41
LENGTH
1:17
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-8, 11-12 and 15-16, and 1 more place -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BLUNT FORCE TO THE LUNGS · BARS 7-8
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 8, 10, 16, 17, 19 and 13 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

48 bars across 7 sections: 11 keep time, 19 are fills, 2 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-4.

PART B
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesAES7BVFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blunt Force to the Lungs?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Blunt Force to the Lungs hard to play on drums?

47 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

41 bars, about 1:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 to the Lungs?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 8, 10, 16, 17, 19 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 41 BARS ANALYSED
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