Blue Bird · Ikimonogakari

132 bars of 4/4 at 151 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Pop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
151 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-37, 39 and 43-45, and 12 more places -- 20.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 151 BPM
BLUE BIRD · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 17, 29, 32, 33, 41, 57 and 11 more.

LOOP · 151 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 151 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 151 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 151 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 14 sections: 95 keep time, 17 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 88-99.

PART B
PART C
PART F
PART J
CHORUS
PART V
PART AA
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART AK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesQXJAKV+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blue Bird?

151 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 Bird hard to play on drums?

61 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Blue Bird?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 17, 29, 32, 33, 41, 57 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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