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Baby Blue · Deafheaven

EXERCISE 27 OF 101
Run G1 · Part G (bars 29-47)
159 / 325 BARS COVERED
0 / 101 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
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
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 12
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Baby Blue on drums

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.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
325
LENGTH
8:33
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-59, ride through bars 60-76, silence through bars 77-108, toms through bars 109-124, hi-hat through bars 125-128 and ride through bars 129-132, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    125              126
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |----------------|x---------------|
BD |x---------x-x---|--------------x-|
Baby Blue -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 78 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- Y, A -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-34 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part A and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 62-116 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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