Baby Blue · Deafheaven

325 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 8:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
325
LENGTH
8:33
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 125-127, 133-135 and 137-139, and 15 more places -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BABY BLUE · BARS 125-126
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 68 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 24, 26, 28 and 62 more.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

325 bars across 20 sections: 170 keep time, 68 are fills, 39 are stops and 32 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 69-76.

PART A
PART G
PART A
BREAK
CHORUS
PART AD
CHORUS 3
PART AD
PART AN
OUTRO
12 groovesYANADAS6+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Baby Blue?

152 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 Baby Blue hard to play on drums?

53 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

325 bars, about 8:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 20 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, 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 Baby Blue?

22 fills to learn, played 68 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 24, 26, 28 and 62 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 325 BARS ANALYSED
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