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

Escape From the City - Blue Blur RMX · Ted Poley & Tony Harnell
EXERCISE 32 OF 41
Join Chorus 3 to Outro (bars 86-88)
109 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Escape From the City - Blue Blur RMX on drums

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.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
79/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-8, snare through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-116 and snare through bars 117-120.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x--x-x--x---|
Escape From the City - Blue Blur RMX -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 5, 9, 10, 14, 18, 20 and 36 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-88 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 86-113 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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