Different Types of Blast Beats (with notation)

[@tessrichards7058]

this is what the drummer does when the guitarists are tuning

[@Mossb100]

I always thought this was a joke until I actually tried to play in my first band lol

[@JackieTheCatfox]

Or while two other band members try to speak. ...come to think of it, this applies to any musician not involved in the conversation. Usually the drummer but not always.

[@kevinthrashergrind5395]

Tupatupatupatupatupa

[@evangeloskostakis8071]

lmao

[@collinscollins5595]

And then the rest of the band doesn’t know what is going on. Drummers just want to get going. You string and vocal dummies just slow the process of making great music down. LOL.

[@skramzrave]

Crazy how the drums make those guitar sounds

[@katyungodly]

Science has gone too far! They were too focused on whether they could do it that they didn’t think about whether they should!

[@lfroglfrog4962]

fkn funny!!

[@thewidow7864]

:v

[@nickyounger1368]

Soooooo true!!!

[@TU42Fuzzy]

LMAO

[@nachoplaymer4397]

So anyway I started blasting

[@lisadunn6125]

Underrated lol

[@Stubz_Perez]

I'm not gonna like because right now this comment is at 666 likes.

[@Qwerty-ks8dn]

... And you ended up with a boring, overly fast song with no musical value...

[@Stickingnote]

@@Qwerty-ks8dn I'm guessing you don't like music then.

[@Qwerty-ks8dn]

@@Stickingnote You might have to work on your guessing skills... and yer logic. (And the ears might need a tune-up, try getting rid of the wax.)

[@aleilricciolo]

0:28 traditional is my fav, it always gives it's effect even if it does not take alot of efforts compared to the other ones.

[@zyphedits6298]

thats my fav and slow and true but maybe at a faster tempo

[@bertberw8653]

It's everyone's favorite

[@blaynegreiner9365]

@@bertberw8653I don't know, stop and go has always been my favorite.

[@MatixMessick]

@@blaynegreiner9365same

[@DarthWinterMadness]

@zyphedits6298 I'm all the way with you on both. That's how I roll. Cheers from France! 🍻

[@jmhanelineiv]

I still frequent this video as a guitarist programing drums. Want to make sure my drums are realistic while varied. Thank you so much for this!

[@66Samus]

that's awesome dude, thank YOU!

[@InjunMoJoe]

Im happy to see this comment because I do the same shit Broman...... If you're going to program kids, Ya better do it right.

[@zack_420]

same :)

[@wackywigglykids3345]

That's exactly why I'm here. As a guitar player, I see the notation he put, and it's all pretty much just hit the bass and snare as fast as humanly possible lol, I understand it, but on paper it all looks the same😂

[@DirkVerbeurenDrummer]

Awesome video Samus! Very honored to be included. Cheers to you and keep up the badass drumming!

[@metalismybusiness1500]

Dirk! Awesome seeing you here! I'm really excited for the stuff that you will bring to Megadeth.

[@OEpistimon]

Hi Dirk!

[@Grease-Goblin]

Oh, well I guess your comment answers my question about where that sick as fuck beat came from. Very neat.

[@novic329]

DirkVerbeurenDrummer your blast is probably the best sounding blast

[@KakeiTheWoIf]

+DirkVerbeurenDrummer, to be fair, your signature blast beat is one of the best for singles.

[@lazyworm94]

I like the part were he hits the snare

[@fuckcraigsgloves8656]

Same.

[@rickfeith6372]

The red ones are more gooder cause they taste like berries

[@memelord1940]

LazyWorm92 smack

[@philly7642]

Me 2!

[@Qwerty-ks8dn]

Actually, blast beats are way too overused in metal, and generally a drumming overkill, if anything. When metal turned into a sports competition...

[@queenkuntress4283]

Why am I watching this? I don't even play the drums, lol.

[@bigbowlowrong4694]

Why am I watching this? I hate blast beats:/

[@handicapitation3250]

I highly doubt very many of his 160k subs can even come close to playing these on the drums.

[@BurrenSHdrums]

Cause drums are the best thing in this world

[@sebastiant2156]

I also don't play drums But I'm writing songs and it's help a lot, if you can put drums to your riffs\m/

[@ReganMcKee]

@@sebastiant2156 i program my drums using my keyboard and videos like this are very helpful yeah!!! Listen to my "no escape" song. Im very happy how the drums came out 👍 👍

[@shrpy2688]

0:07 was the best blast beat I have ever saw

[@craftistic82]

1:15 Stop n Go is by far my favorite

[@kevoc3911]

Reminded me of meshuggah

[@keeshuitink368]

Check out ‘I’by Meshuggah, there’s a whole section in the (20 min) song using that technique

[@Sheys73]

I need more songs with Stop n Go. Any recommendations? :)

[@patrickj]

@@Sheys73 I Won't See You Tonight Part 2 by Avenged Sevenfold - quite a bit slower, but very much the same vibe kzbin.info/www/bejne/jp6sd2eOjJV9l68

[@SendTechno]

What’s the song? 👀

[@66Samus]

Oh my fucking god...I forgot to put my hair in a man-bun for the Pussy Blast. DAMMIT!!!

[@SaudithCapitaine]

+66Samus Hello samus can you give me all songs name you played? song at 0:52 Slow & Trve

[@mr_wessumz]

+66Samus DAMNIT YOU'VE FAILED US

[@ArkhBaegor]

+Saudith Mendoza Capitaine The song is called Generic Black Metal Riff n°34 - Generic Black Metal Band

[@rgrwkmn]

smh... unsubscribe.

[@Cannibal666Corpse]

+66Samus Great. You had one job. Now forever will that opportunity be lost.

[@Metalweasel]

For someone like me who who doesn't play drums at all but programs them for my band this is EXTREMELY helpful. Thank you for this, can't wait to plug some of these in.

[@JamieKaos]

Metalweasel same I'd love to see more videos like this for other beats.

[@topdispatch]

i love that hoglan has a beat named after him

[@Qwerty-ks8dn]

Benante should have one too. In SOD he played some of the most memorable blast beats.

[@One_of_Many750]

Andrew Johnson Dirk Blast Is My Favourite.

[@kungfuman82]

* drummer you hate * also has their own blast beat (pussy blast).

[@DaisyHead666]

It sounds fuckin sick too!

[@anticarnick]

I would have thought the "stop n go" would be called the hoglan blast. He loves doing that all the time and it sounds sick every time.

[@23skidoo46]

I love that Gene has a blast beat named after him. He's one phenomenal drummer. Used to see him w/Dark Angel and that dude is a machine.

[@toprak3479]

The atomic clock

[@ValAtraNiterisOfficial]

1:15 that's my ringtone now :D

[@gigajoules6636]

Read this as it went over 1:15 and just knew this was the moment you were talking about

[@andrewmurphy5310]

I would love to have with the vibrate synced to the bass drum.

[@SendTechno]

What song is that?

[@TheAntiChrysler]

I always wanted to name my band „The Blast Beatles“

[@brycearreola548]

Lol

[@Cheeseboiga]

now imagine a cover of any moptop-era Beatles song with everything as precise as it was, guitars, tone, even wardrobe, but the guy who's impersonating Ringo just blastbeats throughout everything

[@braindrillcp8935]

Blastles

[@PravdaFIN]

There exists a band named that here in Finland. Saw them live actually

[@CrawleonDunger]

@@PravdaFIN Ei vittu finska perkele

[@shrimpy420]

the Dirk Blast was the coolest part of this video, I want to hear a full version of that

[@HarambeKojima]

Agreed

[@lhsailo]

Go to Dirk's YT account, he has instructions to do it even

[@zealthsphinx1002]

That dirk blast reminds of of nikko bryan of iron maiden drummer. I dunno if he knows anything about dirk blast

[@hoipimniet]

@@zealthsphinx1002 Nicko McBrain* and how does that make you think of him? As if Maiden use blast beats :/

[@rudytoth]

SLAYER. 👍😄👍

[@brighamc6211]

My head before: "let's see what a blast beat really consists of. Maybe I can do it with only one bass pedal." *1:57** later* *googling price of second pedal*

[@theofficialsquidwardtentac5764]

You should be able to do both

[@kuromyou7969]

You gotta double bass, bro. 😆

[@Violet._.impulses]

I don't know why but my right foot is faster than my hands so I'm able to do it with one pedal

[@kuutonen666]

But most importantly, did you have a blast?

[@zeldamage001]

Ba-Dum-Tssss! Followed by a blast beat, of course!

[@bruhbagul7806]

@@zeldamage001 more like DADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADA

[@andreiradulescu22]

0:51 the best

[@toKsyKmosh]

0:52 every old school black metal song

[@goldsrcorsource2551]

no shit

[@memelord1940]

Still sounds beautiful

[@jeremystig98]

Slayer - Repentless comes to my mind, except Bostaph plays double the amount of hits on the Hihat.

[@roughrambo1000000]

Gorgoroth

[@fitzgerald6466]

GoldSrc Or Source hey release half life 3

[@Turboy65]

Just watching this increased my blood pressure.

[@acgm046]

Just watching the video I felt my calves starting to cramp

[@djmartens123]

Legit

[@theofficialsquidwardtentac5764]

acgm046 kinda like thinking about a really spicy food! Your mouth burns

[@denisvertinsky7628]

Slow and Trve is my type, definitely

[@Qwerty-ks8dn]

May the Edge be with you, always... Lord.

[@_nurmi06]

My favourite is the skank beat

[@maxek46]

Agreed!

[@Malos_]

Song name for that one?

[@ramon2008]

That’s a cool one. My heart favors hoglan

[@nana-cc6yk]

1:09 me banging at the bathroom door

[@sebass_9212]

More like 1:31

[@nana-cc6yk]

@@sebass_9212 yeah ok son

[@bowlofnuggets]

i dont know why this is so funny to me

[@wanjanechtangroeger]

Hey, you are missing the Nile blast - the bombblast where you play the right hand on the snare and the left plays 8th notes on the offbeats between the snare hits!

[@miguelsequeiraguitar]

Great job man!

[@hombrerusode40anos72]

Miguel!!!!!

[@azrael666ethereal]

Slow and Trve is my personal fave here...

[@goatsurgeon]

Marc Hoyland mine too

[@sayex6727]

Marc Hoyland whats the song?

[@musenw8834]

Hammer and slow and true are my favourites! oh, and also and true would sound nice at mid tempos like 140 to 180 bpm

[@musenw8834]

Yeah technically S&T isn't a blast beat but can be considered the 'half time' of a traditional blast. The other so-called blast beat here that isn't one is the inverse skank

[@chozo2205]

Every rope a noose - the black dahlia murder!

[@GogiRegion]

I’m writing a death metal album, and this video really helped me with drum part ideas!

[@klayguy13]

Where's that album

[@silly_sleepy_ivy]

Aight where is that album

[@murmaider7043]

Boi where dat album at

[@slyatzzz]

It's been 3 years where tf is that album

[@georgharveyoswald5982]

Ya didn't write shite didya mate?

[@anthonypaulminervini8331]

Non-metalheads: *They all sound the same!*

[@brycearreola548]

Exactly

[@mcjamal9555]

but they did, didn't they?

[@abigaillkruss8823]

F***ing stupids they are hehe

[@TheMadDrummerArt]

8 years later this video still slaps! Thanks dude!

[@allenbercero3661]

man, your legs are tremolo picking lol

[@BinxGamesandGuitar]

actually dying lmao

[@yourgenericownedent260]

tremolo kicking*

[@ardipithecus11]

Holy shit never thought of it that way.

[@HandsOfCinderblock]

LoL Traditional Lazy cracked me up... "why do all the work with one foot when you can just go for a jog?"

[@musenw8834]

Hahaha but sometimes it's hard to control when you shift from using one foot to both your feet. I've tried that before

[@thecoton6152]

His blasts are so on point it also plays the guitar.

[@TheArchitectOfDreams]

I played this in the living room with my grandpa sleeping, he woke up and yelled "TAKE COVVVVVVVER!" and jumped behind the couch.

[@cedarmock378]

That's fucked up

[@zeldamage001]

@@cedarmock378 I love your comment :'D

[@desireesoriano7541]

lmaooo

[@blockg9482]

Just didn’t happen though, did it?

[@rickf.4656]

@@blockg9482 ofc it didn't

[@Sm1udntknw]

1:08 Diarrhea Blast. Not only does it sound the most brutal, it's got by far the best name of 'em all.

[@visionofdisorder]

first time i heard that one was in pantera's "use my third arm"

[@kababrutal]

Hoglan blast \m/

[@LeGronk]

rockssss

[@mns000001]

yo. I'm unfamiliar with mean gene's post dark angel output. can you suggest some prime hoglan blast tracks?

[@DarksaberForce]

​@@mns000001He had a lot on Mechanize album by Fear Factory.

[@Thetruepop1]

I like how one of the things that connects the Dirk blast and the Hoglan blast, is that Gene and Dirk both played for Devin Townsend on some of his heaviest records.

[@milansikela8383]

What about the Mortician blast beat? When I heard Mortician's albums, I was blown away by how insanely fast the blast beat was. Then I found out it was a drum machine...until I saw a Mortician concert. Holy shit...I was double amazed by the fact they found a drummer that could throw down such crazy blast beats at superhuman speed.

[@ssaamil]

Any example songs by them please?

[@angelr7330]

@@ssaamilslaughterhouse

[@russslagel514]

For years the live drummer was usually Roger Beaujard and Desmond Tolhurst would play guitar. Mortician's the shit!

[@Cooper-cs6dp]

Mike smith from Suffo can definitely execute those crazy speeds.

[@milansikela8383]

Mike Smith is an average drummer at best when it comes to death metal drumming. There are drummers out there that could run circles around him.

[@somethinggrim9336]

Nobody Metal heads with adhd: I MUST DRUM

[@sonianadashkevich927]

I must BLAST

[@Cobalt985]

I don't think I've been called out like this before lmao

[@andyel0]

DRVM

[@sadcat1565]

me

[@adamadeptus3686]

0:23 - Hyper Blast 0:28 - Traditional (Lazy) 0:32 - Traditional (One Foot) 0:37 - Bomb Blast 0:41 - Gravity Blast 0:45 - Hoglan Blast 0:51 - Slow and Trve (Traditional Black Metal) 0:59 - Pussy Blast 1:08 - Diarrhea Blast 1:15 - Stop and Go Blast 1:23 - Inverse Skank Blast 1:31 - Gravity Bomb 1:35 - Dirk Blast

[@liltarantula2275]

1:15 beyond oblivion - trivium intro

[@s4b562]

Not the same :)

[@hernangllucero2018]

Posta. Ni lo note

[@ritwikchowdhury9962]

1:25 was like Stevie T doing ClankClankClaLaLaLa...ClankClankClaLaLaLa 😂

[@Even_N.D.]

Haha YES.

[@Tommybotham]

I’m hearing so many of my favourite bands when I listen to these blast beats.

[@chrisaustin3510]

0:38 basically everything Behemoth song ever😂

[@Ravelle17]

You strung a couple of these together in Devin Townsend’s “Hear Me” to INCREDIBLE effect. Bravo!

[@Ravelle17]

my rough guess for the sequence is Diarrhea into Dirk into Bomb

[@JaelleJaen]

you know that song is 4 years old and this video is 7 years old

[@daixso]

Those slow and true blasts in black metal 👌 so good

[@Khazandar]

The "dirk blast" is just absolutely ridiculous with the hand switching xD

[@b3ta1b]

you should watch archspire's drummer videos, he's doing switch blasts at 340 bpm

[@NobleVI_343]

BeardedDanishViking Check out John Longstreth from ORIGIN, dude’s an animal

[@b2bweb]

Now I can write drums for my shitty riffs on guitar pro! :D

[@Gabrol]

+B2B WEB Jaime Martín it's a bit different in guitar pro

[@ShredCrusade]

Gabrol haha true dat

[@ACW1590]

I found it a bit tricky at first myself but once you can memorise what number corresponds to what drum hit it's a lot easier.

[@JohnGarryDrums]

The stop and go blasts will always get me

[@rippindrummer666]

The traditional always sounds the best to me and has the most groove of all of them imo. Another one would be the Chris Pennie septuplet accented blasts like in the dillinger escape plan song Panasonic youth or any Dillinger song

[@HawtDawgN3k]

Traditional has to be my favorite blast beat. Reminds me of Malevolent Creation :)

[@ManoSaarinenCarmanen81]

At least one is missing: Mick "The human tornado" Harris blast beat! He has his own unique style too \m/

[@LaughWhileItsStillLegal]

Diahrroea Blast? That's perfect name for a grindcore band XD

[@LaYamiUwU]

I know right! XD

[@goatsurgeon]

You know it dude!

[@ZekeNigma]

Well, it is the blast beat that's typically used in grindcore

[@jimtguitarist]

Goregrind

[@TrAnE175]

should be better named "Gutalax blast"

[@AitorMolina.]

This video has the best introduction ever.

[@MiKeHendrycks]

Thank you so much!! I’ve just started trying to program drums to match to all of my riffs. The trial and error phase has been fun... but seeing notation and what it sounds like is incredibly helpful!! Thank you!!

[@Chillidog650]

The Dirk blast is my favorite :)

[@3ndyyyyyy]

Indeed

[@mrToglovski56709]

Can someone send me a song where he uses that blast beat?

[@acgold3568]

so it must be done at 666 bpm?

[@raymondbauer2152]

666 bps xD

[@Tiro95]

yes

[@rudytoth]

Sounds real good, but might ruin the heads @ machine speed. 😁

[@edGuy_]

Prophet

[@justinkroboth360]

Dat gravity bomb, tho.

[@KhahiraRavyn]

Gravity bombs always give me life.

[@MrS9b]

Man.. that Dirk Blast.. *shivers*

[@txhellrazor4765]

0:07 lol I always do that and pretend I'm doing blast beats 😂😂😂

[@DLTA64]

1:35 The riff just made me think, that the Drik Blast would fit perfectly to the end of Megadeth's "Lying In State".

[@darkarrower]

1:00 best!

[@katyungodly]

Definitely my favorite for slower groovy bits in Death Metal, deathcore, and slam :)

[@darkarrower]

@@katyungodly yes)

[@TJCombo67]

Sick. Stop and Go was especially sick.

[@Consural]

Listen to the song "Clockworks" by Meshuggah, if you haven't. Probably the best usage of that style you can ever hear.

[@HELLnnan]

What a nice and perfect performance. Congrats to your technique

[@EmperorKagato]

1:36 HEAVEN OR HELL. DUEL ONE LET'S ROCK

[@chrisrowe6835]

Always loved your videos, this being a personal fave. Your playing is always so clean, and it makes me wonder, are there any videos of you giving lessons or tips on coordination/interdependence? Would love to watch one of my favorite drummers explain how he fucks shit up like this lol

[@DeathCoreGuitar]

Stop n Go is really good) Nice video, stay metal

[@kaelanmcalpine2011]

DeathCoreGuitar Sounds like Djent blasting.

[@musenw8834]

Stop and go I think was used in a thy art is murder song. cannot remember which one it is.

[@maxgeffen3506]

Sounds more like District of Misery by Oceano

[@fox_ch]

Max Geffen thought the same

[@the_don-r3l]

Muse Nw How bout tim yeung

[@metaltendy86]

That Hoglan Blast needs to be a ringtone, so tasty.

[@szczursmazony]

THE NAMES GOT ME CRYING FROM LAUGHTER

[@susinko3285]

Thank you so much for showing us all those different blast beats. I also have to say that you have gorgeous hair. Yes. I am jealous.

[@alrecks619]

*everyone's favorite metal beat* well, yes, but actually, no - vinnie paul (r.i.p.)

[@shekjer87]

HOGLAN BLAST YEAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

[@michaelt1760]

Petar Nikolic I like that one to

[@humb1s3rvant]

The Atomic Clock

[@onlyhuman3281]

Marvellous I love every little bit thank you for posting.

[@florianpoulin7108]

Very instructive. Thanks. Dirk, Gravity Bomb, Stop and Go, and inverse shank are my favourite I think i will create some blast battery patterns to work on rythm with my guitar.

[@chrisclayton584]

the gravity & Dirk blast was insane. the diarrhea was hilarious!

[@krona2894]

This vid gave me a leg cramp

[@CookbookAdventures]

"Notation here for you dummies!" I' m crying laughing ... That was really funny.

[@xjamesxreedx]

1:08 sounds like Morbid Angel - Pain Divine

[@chewybaccawacca]

stop n go is just the beginning to The Blister Exists

[@cfh13]

I'd always wondered how drum tabs were read but never googled it. So thanks from this dummy. Guitar is god!! Really digging your videos.

[@TheWillbyWill]

"Stop n go blast" also known as "every fucking djent song blast beat" 😂

[@hevybarsy7174]

Man that Slow & Trve really gave me the need of listening to some black metal xD

[@Qwerty-ks8dn]

Edgelords, they be a-multiplyin'.

[@Qwerty-ks8dn]

@Cytheiod Bumhurt edgelords, they keep-a-bumhurting. A lot.

[@Qwerty-ks8dn]

@Cytheiod Edgelords, they actually becomin'-a-proud of being edgelord hipsters. Fascinating.

[@karl-kristiankorts7907]

ty for that scream at the beginning, my speakers were at max

[@pingpongpung]

Not his problem.

[@spheregrid2998]

That Hoglan Blast is so good sounding

[@CatFish107]

Mmm. I sure do enjoy the dirk blast and gravity bomb. Thanks for those rapid skin taps!

[@therivas_m2498]

0:32 Pete Sandoval 1:00 Alex Lopez 1:32 John Longstreth 1:37 Flo Mounier

[@luciangbm]

can't take my eyes off of that 17" CRT hahahah! you're amazing btw

[@sampark17]

Hoglan FTW SYL \m/

[@francobuzzetti9424]

thank you! I've never fully knew if it was just faster Backbeat , faster 4otf or even if the kick or the snare was first beat, now i know, it doesn't matter as long as it's "fast af boi"

[@SoulFistGaming]

I don't know anything about music or reading notes but the way you described that symbol was so simple I feel like I can learn it

[@officegossip]

The single pedal is my personal favorite. Can’t beat the impressive classic but stop & go and trve are my second favs.

[@BGeezy4sheezy]

To me it just always sounds better when a drummer just uses a single kick

[@GraduatedIn]

Petition to rename diarrhea blast to Taco Bell blast

[@andrewhunter9119]

Baja blast

[@jami_veret118]

Theyre the same thing...

[@GraduatedIn]

bean_plant that’s why I said rename it lol

[@schloo]

I always called it a Gallop. Is that a thing?

[@s.e.n3264]

Hyper, Hoglan, Stop N Go, Dirk Are the best

[@bigearl791]

Just seeing notes helps so much ...

[@OneRoomShed]

"Stop n go" was awesome! Love that sound.

[@numerousattention103]

0:32 Carl Palmer brought me here

[@dead0ntime]

Are you referring to The Barbarian?

[@jessedover6175]

Dude...., you f*ing RULE!!!!! Can you play a whole SUFFOCATION album , without a break??

[@elj597]

0:37 I loved this beat

[@theallianceslayer]

Listening to revocation and the drummer is so dynamic he’s played like every one of this kinds of blast beats and then some

[@izerath001]

Whatever Dirk Blast is, sounds freaking amazing. New knowledge added the brain.

[@999Mher]

Reminds of Lamb of God.