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Blonde, Bad And Beautiful · Airbourne

EXERCISE 8 OF 26
Groove E
94 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART F, CHORUS
PART A
PART A
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART A
OUTRO
5 groovesDAFS11S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blonde, Bad And Beautiful on drums

119 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
49/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 21 and 25, and 11 more places -- 42.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Blonde, Bad And Beautiful -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 80 and 119.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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, A -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Blonde, Bad And Beautiful?

128 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 Blonde, Bad And Beautiful hard to play on drums?

49 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Blonde, Bad And Beautiful?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 80 and 119.

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