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Blurry · Puddle Of Mudd

EXERCISE 28 OF 40
Groove Q -- Outro
67 / 80 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCFQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blurry on drums

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 4:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
80/100

ride through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-56, snare through bars 57-60, ride through bars 61-68, hi-hat through bars 69-72 and ride through bars 73-76, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6-16 and 18-23, and 4 more places -- 36.3% 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 |xgxgxgxgxgxgxgxg|
SD |----X----g--X---|
BD |x--x---x---x----|
Blurry -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 40, 47, 48 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- C, F -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 23-36 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 57-77 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Blurry?

78 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 Blurry hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Blurry?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 40, 47, 48 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED