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The Blond Beast · Marduk

EXERCISE 14 OF 17
Run C2 · Part C (bars 75-89)
131 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
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
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Blond Beast on drums

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

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
47/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
The Blond Beast -- 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 16 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 14-55 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED