DrumProgressive
Silver Member
Re: The Blast Beat
Don't ge tme wrong, i LOVE killswitch but the part your describing isn't really a blast beat. Justin is just playing fast upstrokes there.
Here we have a perfect taste can differ. I can totally understand why u don't like this blasting, why I absolutely love it and i think it's genious.
It's also a good example of what i think a blast beat is good for. It's that one thing to play when u need to speed up into a climax and you're tired of those upstrokes or downstrokes. I myself ain't that good at blasting. It have not yet come to the point of actually use it in any of y band's songs but occasionally i throw it in at the ending of a song right before the guitar hits it's last chords.
Obviously, i play metal.
For example, in "Rose of Sharyn" by Killswitch Engage, drummer Justin Foley plays a blast beat with a syncopated guitar melody. The bass guitar is on the down beat (which is mimicked by the bass drum) and the guitars play the melody on the upbeat (snare drum), thus creating a very complimentary blast beat pattern.
Don't ge tme wrong, i LOVE killswitch but the part your describing isn't really a blast beat. Justin is just playing fast upstrokes there.
In the song "A Bid Farewell," once the second guitar riff is going (after the first verse) Foley plays a blast that seems very out of place to me. That song is an example of where blast beats aren't quite the most apporpriate groove for the application.
Here we have a perfect taste can differ. I can totally understand why u don't like this blasting, why I absolutely love it and i think it's genious.
It's also a good example of what i think a blast beat is good for. It's that one thing to play when u need to speed up into a climax and you're tired of those upstrokes or downstrokes. I myself ain't that good at blasting. It have not yet come to the point of actually use it in any of y band's songs but occasionally i throw it in at the ending of a song right before the guitar hits it's last chords.
Obviously, i play metal.