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Blush · Title Fight

EXERCISE 1 OF 34
Groove D -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDJQS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blush on drums

109 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 2:42 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-9, snare through bars 10-41, hi-hat through bars 42-59, snare through bars 60-89 and hi-hat through bars 90-109.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18-20, and 17 more places -- 54.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---g---g---g---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Blush -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- D -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Bars 38-56 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Blush?

157 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Blush hard to play on drums?

56 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Blush?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED