Blue Lagoon · Masayoshi Takanaka

80 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:39 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-14, 16 and 18, and 6 more places -- 30% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BLUE LAGOON · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 8 sections: 66 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-27.

PART B
CHORUS
PART J
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEJPBLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blue Lagoon?

120 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 Lagoon hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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.

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