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Blue · Yngwie Malmsteen

EXERCISE 1 OF 31
Groove F -- Chorus
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PART B
CHORUS
PART B
5 groovesFBVS1S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blue on drums

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.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
53/100

ride through bars 3-56, toms through bars 57-58, ride through bars 59-72, toms through bars 73-74, ride through bars 75-113 and hi-hat through bars 114-116.

The beat

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.

    20
    1...........2...........3...........
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------------x-----------------|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----x-----|
Blue -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- F, B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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