![]() ![]() It is a more ear-pleasing heavy metal sub-genre with faster tempos that brings the glorious feelings to you. What is Power Metal? I have my own definition about this sub-genre. Power Metal is one of the sub-genre outside the extreme metal that currently more often doing the blast-beats. Extreme metal is the more aggressive, abrasive, and harsher style of heavy metal. I said that blast-beats often associated with extreme metal sub-genre such as Death and Black Metal, and actually not only those two, because Thrash Metal, Speed Metal, and Doom Metal are sometimes also associated with extreme metal. think smarter please! I don’t know if other music genre does the blast-beats drum beat, especially in the Pop genre, I think it is not a good idea to put blast-beats on a Pop song. Many claimed that Asocial was the first band performed the blast-beats, but if Asocial was the first, so what was Carl Palmer doing in the song The Barbarian? I am not saying that Emerson, Lake and Palmer was the first, but…. Swedish hardcore group called “Asocial” also did the blast-beats in their song Asocial Attack (hardcore is not metal. In 1970, the progressive rock group “Emerson, Lake, and Palmer” also used the blast-beats drum beat on the song The Barbarian. American jazz drummer Louie Bellson used the blast-beats while performing with Duke Ellington, and personally I think he is the “godfather” of metal drummer because of the blast-beats and the badass double-bass drum kit in the 1959……. “Can I find blast-beats on other sub-genre beside extreme metal?” Of course, even outside the metal genre. I am not a drummer, I am not a drum teacher, and this is not a drum lesson. About the other types of blast-beats, you can find those things on many books, and if you don’t want the hard way, you can see Google or YouTube. The traditional blast is simply alternating “kick/cymbal-snare-kick/cymbal-snare” in 16th notes or 32nd notes, and the “kick/cymbal” means that you hit the bass-drum and the cymbal simultaneously. The traditional blast is the one that is very related to the genre that I want to talk about later in this article. ![]() There are four basic types of the blast-beats, the traditional blast, the bomb-blast, the hammer blast, and the freehand blast. Don’t ever think that you can play a Death Metal song full of blast-beats well without practicing from the slower tempo, otherwise your playing would be really ugly and it is more just like a noise rather than a music. It is better if you start with a slower tempo, keep it clean and nice, and then you change the tempo a little bit faster. Why? For you who is unfamiliar with this type of drum beats, the more clicks you heard will help to keep you lock into the tempo. Usually the best way to count the blast-beats are in 32nd notes or the 16th notes in faster tempos. ![]() Have you ever done a research before? Or what is the title of the book, journal, or publication that stated the name of the first drummer that use the blast-beats? You can say that it was Napalm Death that first performed the blast-beats, or Sarcofago, or whatever you want to say it, but you definitely won’t have any evidence about it. ![]() If you are one of them, I want to ask you a question. Some people claimed that they are the first one who used the blast-beats, or being know-it-all by saying “The band A used it first” and “The drummer B was the first” without any research or evidence. Who was the first one to use the blast-beats? I don’t know, Wikipedia doesn’t know, no one knows, it is still a mystery. I think the definition about blast-beats is pretty clear, but if you thought “blast-beat is such an abusive explosive almost arhythmic drum beat”, it is okay. I got the definition of blast-beat from the book The Evolution Of Blast Beats, and it is “an alternating single stroke roll broken up between the kick and snare, with your ride hand generally playing in unison with the kick drum. What is blast beat? Blast beat is a type of drum beats that very very often associated with Heavy Metal especially extreme metal sub-genres such as Death Metal and Black Metal. ![]()
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