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Electric Blue - Official HD Version · Icehouse

EXERCISE 5 OF 34
Groove E -- Chorus
47 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 37 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Electric Blue - Official HD Version on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
58/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-104 and toms through bars 105-120.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Electric Blue - Official HD Version -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 1-42 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-72 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 68-112 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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