The Blond Beast · Marduk

135 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-16, 25-40 and 59-74, and 4 more places -- 47.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
THE BLOND BEAST · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 11 sections: 107 keep time and 17 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 98-115.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART C
PART B
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesACBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Blond Beast?

125 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 The Blond Beast hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 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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