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Blue Bird · Ikimonogakari

Blue Bird · Ikimonogakari
EXERCISE 21 OF 66
2-bar fill at bar 32
84 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
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
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blue Bird on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
151 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bars 2-9, ride through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-33, ride through bars 34-53, hi-hat through bars 54-73 and ride through bars 74-89, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Blue Bird -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- Q, R -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part J -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part V -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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