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Blauwe Ruis · Bløf

Blauwe Ruis · Bløf
EXERCISE 21 OF 28
Groove J -- Part J
135 / 144 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART J
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART H
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDFHAJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blauwe Ruis on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
56/100

snare through bars 1-7 and hi-hat through bars 8-144.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----------x---g-|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Blauwe Ruis -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- D, F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-86 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 43-84 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 87-96 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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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