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Der Blaue Planet · Karat

EXERCISE 1 OF 7
Groove B -- Verse
0 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 7 PASSED · 118 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE
VERSE
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Der Blaue Planet on drums

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

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the speed of the hand keeping time.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-125.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-xxx-xxx-xxx-xx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Der Blaue Planet -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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