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Blue Dream (Standard) · Dance Gavin Dance

EXERCISE 17 OF 33
Groove K
68 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART C
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJSFCP+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blue Dream (Standard) on drums

110 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 4:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
80/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-34, snare through bars 35-37, hi-hat through bars 38-66, snare through bars 67-69 and hi-hat through bars 70-85, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 24 and 26, and 5 more places -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------x---------------x-|
HH |----x---o---x-------x---o---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x-x-----x-------x-x-|
HF |x---------------x---------------|
Blue Dream (Standard) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 17, 21, 34, 35, 36 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- J -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  7. Bars 18-38 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 22-72 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Blue Dream (Standard)?

96 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Dream (Standard) hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 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 Dream (Standard)?

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 17, 21, 34, 35, 36 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED