Blue · A Perfect Circle

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-30, 32 and 34, and 7 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BLUE · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 13, 27, 31, 33, 35, 39 and 17 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 7 sections: 52 keep time and 24 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-12.

PART D
PART L
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesODLAKAQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blue?

90 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 Blue hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Blue?

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 13, 27, 31, 33, 35, 39 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED
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