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Baby Blue · Fishmans

Baby Blue · Fishmans
EXERCISE 4 OF 14
Groove A
124 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
CHORUS 3
VERSE 3
OUTRO
VERSE 4
2 groovesBCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Baby Blue on drums

138 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 6:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
6:04
DIFFICULTY
51/100

toms through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-138.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-18, 22-24 and 34-40, and 9 more places -- 45.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- B, C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-41 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 34-106 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Baby Blue?

91 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?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 6:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED