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Blue Hotel · Chris Isaak

EXERCISE 9 OF 21
Join Chorus to Outro (bars 60-62)
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0 / 21 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFDS1AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blue Hotel on drums

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.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-15, snare through bars 16-20 and hi-hat through bars 21-116.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- F -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED