Blue Hair · TV Girl

120 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 19 more places -- 58.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BLUE HAIR · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 9 sections: 87 keep time, 23 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-32.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
BREAK 4
OUTRO
5 groovesCS8S2S4S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blue Hair?

135 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 Hair 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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