Blue Collar Man (Long Nights) · Styx

127 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-18, 21-22 and 25, and 2 more places -- 10.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BLUE COLLAR MAN (LONG NIGHTS) · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 5, 9, 10, 11, 19, 23 and 44 more.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 122 BPM
BARS 9-11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 13 sections: 60 keep time, 50 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-18.

PART E
PART J
CHORUS
VERSE
PART AB
PART AE
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
11 groovesOCAEJAB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)?

122 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 Collar Man (Long Nights) hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Collar Man (Long Nights)?

17 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 5, 9, 10, 11, 19, 23 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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