Breezeblocks · Alt-J

136 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:31 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieElectronic150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31 and 57-71 -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BREEZEBLOCKS · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 13 sections: 99 keep time and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 105-120.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART F
PART S8
PART J
PART N
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBFNDJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Breezeblocks?

155 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 Breezeblocks hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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.

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