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Blue Lagoon · Masayoshi Takanaka

EXERCISE 7 OF 24
Groove D
49 / 80 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blue Lagoon on drums

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.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
44/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-11, snare through bars 12-35, kick and crashes through bars 36-39, snare through bars 40-63 and kick and crashes through bars 64-76, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
HF |xxxx-xxxxxxx-xxx|
Blue Lagoon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- E, J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 12-40 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 62-75 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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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