Blue Sky · The Allman Brothers Band

166 bars of 2/4 -- not four -- at 94 BPM, 5:06 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
2/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-6, 14-19 and 26-50, and 2 more places -- 38.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 94 BPM
BLUE SKY · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 7, 8, 153 and 154.

LOOP · 94 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

166 bars across 17 sections: 131 keep time, 4 are fills, 14 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-50.

CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART J
PART J
CHORUS 4
8 groovesAJIDH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blue Sky?

94 BPM, in 2/4, 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 hard to play on drums?

52 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 5:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 7, 8, 153 and 154.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED
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