Blue Light · Mazzy Star

229 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 132 BPM, 5:12 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
229
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 79 more places -- 36.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BLUE LIGHT · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 120 and 200.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 120 · LANDS ON BAR 121 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

229 bars across 9 sections: 196 keep time, 2 are fills, 14 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 134-176.

PART D
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFCDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blue Light?

132 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Light hard to play on drums?

29 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 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

229 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Blue Light?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 120 and 200.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 229 BARS ANALYSED
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