Der Blaue Planet · Karat

125 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

PopElectronic90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 94% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-56, 58-81 and 84-88, and 2 more places -- 94.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 112 BPM
DER BLAUE PLANET · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars: 123 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-124.

VERSE
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Der Blaue Planet?

112 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 Der Blaue Planet hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Der Blaue Planet?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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