Escape From the City - Blue Blur RMX · Ted Poley & Tony Harnell

120 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 11-13, and 14 more places -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
ESCAPE FROM THE CITY - BLUE BLUR RMX · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 5, 9, 10, 14, 18, 20 and 36 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 7 sections: 68 keep time, 44 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-25.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Escape From the City - Blue Blur RMX?

135 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 Escape From the City - Blue Blur RMX hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Escape From the City - Blue Blur RMX?

15 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 5, 9, 10, 14, 18, 20 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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