Blues de Moscou · Браво

63 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 1:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
1:48
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-10, 19-20 and 46-48, and 2 more places -- 29% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BLUES DE MOSCOU · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 18 and 6 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 2-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

63 bars across 7 sections: 29 keep time, 12 are fills, 14 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-25.

PART S2
PART G
PART H
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesKFGHS2+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blues de Moscou?

140 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Blues de Moscou hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 1:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, 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 Blues de Moscou?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 18 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED
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