Bluebird · Sunset Rollercoaster

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 3:29 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 18-20, and 8 more places -- 47.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 77 BPM
BLUEBIRD · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 39, 40, 42, 49 and 55.

LOOP · 77 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 6 sections: 45 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-33.

CHORUS
BREAK
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
4 groovesBAS2S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bluebird?

77 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Bluebird hard to play on drums?

37 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, 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 Bluebird?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 39, 40, 42, 49 and 55.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED
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