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182 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 5:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 14 and 24, and 40 more places -- 28.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BLUE SKY COMPLEX · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 13, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 41 more.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 18-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 45-51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

182 bars across 10 sections: 117 keep time, 47 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 150-162.

CHORUS
PART D
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART X
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBDLAMX+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blue Sky Complex?

136 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 Sky Complex hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

182 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Sky Complex?

17 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 13, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 182 BARS ANALYSED
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