Azul · Zoé

153 bars at 197 BPM -- fast, and 3:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Hip Hop / ReggaeRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
197 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-33, 37 and 41, and 28 more places -- 48.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 197 BPM
AZUL · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 88 and 152.

LOOP · 197 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 3 sections: 146 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-85.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Azul?

197 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Azul hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Azul?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 88 and 152.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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