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Bluebird · Sunset Rollercoaster

Bluebird · Sunset Rollercoaster
EXERCISE 1 OF 19
Groove B -- Chorus 2
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CHORUS
BREAK
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
4 groovesBAS2S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bluebird on drums

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

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
37/100

ride through bars 1-4, silence through bars 5-16, ride through bars 17-46, silence through bars 47-49 and ride through bars 50-67.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Bluebird -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- B, A -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 39-56 -- 9 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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