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Deep Blue · Chat Pile

EXERCISE 35 OF 50
Groove Q
97 / 122 BARS COVERED
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART E
CHORUS 4
PART J
PART P
CHORUS 5
PART T
OUTRO
7 groovesAJEPT+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Deep Blue on drums

122 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
46/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-48, hi-hat through bars 49-64 and snare through bars 65-104, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 32 more places -- 39.2% 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
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---------|
Deep Blue -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 16, 32, 40, 48, 64 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- A, B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-37 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 38-55 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 54-81 -- 8 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 80-90 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 93-105 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Deep Blue?

122 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 Deep Blue hard to play on drums?

46 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

How many fills are in Deep Blue?

11 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 16, 32, 40, 48, 64 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED