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Blurry · Stand Atlantic

Blurry · Stand Atlantic
EXERCISE 8 OF 19
Groove I
42 / 69 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEBS6S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blurry on drums

69 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 2:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-15, hi-hat through bars 16-23, toms through bars 24-25, snare through bars 26-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-46, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 2 more places -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx-------|
Blurry -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 50, 51, 52, 53 and 61.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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, E -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 21-46 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Blurry?

100 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?

41 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 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 Blurry?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 50, 51, 52, 53 and 61.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED