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Have a Blast · Periphery

EXERCISE 19 OF 64
Join Part AQ to Part AU (bars 73-75)
129 / 211 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AQ, PART AU
PART S2
PART AQ
PART AU
PART BB
PART BF
PART BS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCES2AQBFBB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Have a Blast on drums

211 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 7:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
211
LENGTH
7:09
DIFFICULTY
79/100

silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-14, toms through bars 15-40, snare through bars 41-47, toms through bars 48-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-58, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 134-138, 140-142 and 144, and 9 more places -- 23% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    164
    1.......2.......3.......4...
CC |x---------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-----------|
SD |----------------x-----------|
BD |x-------x---------------x---|
Have a Blast -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 81 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 75 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- CE, AQ -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BB -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 -- 2 exercises, about 50 minutes.
  5. Through Part S2 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part AQ -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part AQ -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 73-80 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Have a Blast?

113 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Have a Blast hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

211 bars, about 7:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Have a Blast?

15 fills to learn, played 81 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 75 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 211 BARS ANALYSED