Blue Sky · Hale

83 bars, 4:26, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 90% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-25, 27-29 and 31-59, and 2 more places -- 89.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BLUE SKY · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 60 and 82.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 3 sections: 74 keep time, 2 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-59.

CHORUS
OUTRO
2 groovesAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blue Sky?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Blue Sky hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Blue Sky?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 60 and 82.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED
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