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Blueprint · Fugazi

Blueprint · Fugazi
EXERCISE 19 OF 22
Run K1 · Outro (bars 83-92)
80 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBS1KHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blueprint on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 3:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-50, kick and crashes through bars 51-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-97.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 25-27, and 10 more places -- 58.8% 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
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Blueprint -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 52, 58, 61, 62, 63, 64 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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, C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Blueprint?

104 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 Blueprint hard to play on drums?

43 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Blueprint?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 52, 58, 61, 62, 63, 64 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED