Blue Hotel · Chris Isaak

116 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / BluesPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24, 26-31 and 34-35, and 14 more places -- 60.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BLUE HOTEL · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 22, 32, 64, 66, 68, 70 and 4 more.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 91 · LANDS ON BAR 92
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 5 sections: 77 keep time, 10 are fills, 9 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-55.

COUNT-IN
PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFDS1AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blue Hotel?

148 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 Hotel hard to play on drums?

52 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Hotel?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 22, 32, 64, 66, 68, 70 and 4 more.

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