Clear Blue Skies · Alternative Competition 6

144 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 3:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-31, 49-63 and 81-95, and 9 more places -- 53.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 164 BPM
CLEAR BLUE SKIES · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 9 sections: 117 keep time and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 114-144.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBEIS1A+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Clear Blue Skies?

164 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 Clear Blue Skies hard to play on drums?

45 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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