Blue · Yngwie Malmsteen

116 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 90 BPM, 3:55 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-24, 27-33 and 35-40, and 9 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BLUE · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 17, 18, 25, 26, 34, 41 and 11 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 41-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 6 sections: 93 keep time, 17 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-16.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
5 groovesFBVS1S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blue?

90 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 17, 18, 25, 26, 34, 41 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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