Electric Blue - Official HD Version · Icehouse

120 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopElectronic90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-16, 27-33 and 35-37, and 12 more places -- 39.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
ELECTRIC BLUE - OFFICIAL HD VERSION · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 26, 34, 38, 55, 63 and 10 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 11 sections: 80 keep time, 16 are fills, 14 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-16.

PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART A
6 groovesEDAS11S10+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Electric Blue - Official HD Version?

110 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 Electric Blue - Official HD Version hard to play on drums?

58 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Electric Blue - Official HD Version?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 26, 34, 38, 55, 63 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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