Blue Angels · Fearless Flyers

133 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 74% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-19 and 21-27, and 10 more places -- 73.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BLUE ANGELS · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 100, 103, 104, 108, 111, 132 and 1 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 103-104 · LANDS ON BAR 105 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 111 · LANDS ON BAR 112
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 6 sections: 117 keep time, 7 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-85.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDLCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blue Angels?

115 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 Angels hard to play on drums?

45 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Blue Angels?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 100, 103, 104, 108, 111, 132 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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