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Breezeblocks · Alt-J

Breezeblocks · Alt-J
EXERCISE 10 OF 34
Join Part D to Part F (bars 22-24)
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0 / 34 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART F
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
GROOVE · 11
RUN · 5
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Breezeblocks on drums

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.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, toms through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-56, toms through bars 57-72 and silence through bars 73-83, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--------x-------|
T2 |xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxx|
BD |x---x-----x-x---|
Breezeblocks -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- F, B -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-24 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-72 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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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