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Blue Light · Mazzy Star

Blue Light · Mazzy Star
EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove B
0 / 229 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 82 BARS LIT
PART C
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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blue Light on drums

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.

29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
229
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
29/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-14, hi-hat through bars 15-21, ride through bars 22-77, hi-hat through bars 78-84 and ride through bars 85-118, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
RD |x---x---x---|
BD |x-----------|
Blue Light -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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 -- B, C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 14-84 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 103-220 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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