Exploder · Audioslave

92 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:10 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
2:10
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-23, 25 and 27-43, and 6 more places -- 75% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 170 BPM
EXPLODER · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 3 sections: 88 keep time and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-55.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Exploder?

170 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 Exploder hard to play on drums?

41 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 2:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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