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.

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

TEMPO

94 BPM

TIME

2/4

BARS

166

LENGTH

5:06

DIFFICULTY

52/100

hi-hat through bars 1-6, ride through bars 7-13, hi-hat through bars 14-19, ride through bars 20-25, hi-hat through bars 26-52 and ride through bars 53-54, and 15 more changes after that.

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.

    14
    1e+a2e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x---|
BD |x-------|

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

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, J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
2. Bars 1-20 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
3. Bars 12-54 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus 3 and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
5. Bars 57-90 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
6. Through Part I and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
7. Through Part J -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
8. Through Part J and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
9. and 2 more sittings after that.