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Blue · A Perfect Circle

EXERCISE 23 OF 54
Groove V
52 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART L
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blue on drums

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.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
70/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-79 and kick and crashes through bars 80-84.

The beat

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.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x----x--xx----|
Blue -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- O -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, L -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-34 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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