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Blue Sky · Hale

EXERCISE 1 OF 10
Groove A -- Chorus
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0 / 10 PASSED · 71 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
OUTRO
2 groovesAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blue Sky on drums

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

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
47/100

hi-hat through bars 1-60, snare through bars 61-62, silence through bars 63-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-83.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-o-xxxxx-o-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---xxxxx-----|
Blue Sky -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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