Blue · Yung Kai

106 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 98 BPM, 3:15 of playing on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 73% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 27-41 and 43-57, and 2 more places -- 72.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BLUE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 106.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 106
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 6 sections: 76 keep time, 1 is a fill and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-58.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesBS5DS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blue?

98 BPM, in 3/4, 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 hard to play on drums?

29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Blue?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 106.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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