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Boilermaker · Royal Blood

EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBFKOS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Boilermaker on drums

82 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-72, ride through bars 73-74 and hi-hat through bars 75-82.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-16 and 25-28, and 6 more places -- 34.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 17, 18, 72, 74, 78 and 82.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-32 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Boilermaker?

95 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 Boilermaker hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 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 Boilermaker?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 17, 18, 72, 74, 78 and 82.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED