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Blue Eyes Blue · Eric Clapton

EXERCISE 21 OF 21
Play the whole song with the record
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PART B
BREAK
PART S3
CHORUS
BREAK 2
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART E
CHORUS 4
PART S11
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDEBS5S11+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blue Eyes Blue on drums

157 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
38/100

hi-hat through bars 1-15, silence through bars 16-20, hi-hat through bars 21-30, ride through bars 31-35, hi-hat through bars 36-85 and ride through bars 86-90, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-15, 21-30 and 36-51, and 14 more places -- 67.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 76, 126 and 142.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-52 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 31-127 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Blue Eyes Blue?

140 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 Eyes Blue hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Eyes Blue?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 76, 126 and 142.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED