Blauwe Ruis · Bløf

144 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-31, 49-67 and 97-111 -- 39.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BLAUWE RUIS · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 32, 40, 68, 76, 112, 120 and 2 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 128 · LANDS ON BAR 129
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 11 sections: 123 keep time and 9 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-31.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDFHAJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blauwe Ruis?

125 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 Blauwe Ruis hard to play on drums?

56 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Blauwe Ruis?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 32, 40, 68, 76, 112, 120 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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