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Blue Sky- · Hale

EXERCISE 19 OF 40
Groove L
63 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART N
PART S6
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAHSNS6+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blue Sky- on drums

87 bars, 4:38, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

53 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
87
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-18, ride through bars 19-22, hi-hat through bars 23-30, ride through bars 31-38, hi-hat through bars 39-46 and ride through bars 47-54, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9 and 11-13, and 7 more places -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 18, 22, 26, 30, 38, 46 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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, H -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-55 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 55-74 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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?

53 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 Sky-?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 18, 22, 26, 30, 38, 46 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED