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Guitar, Loneliness and Blue Planet · kessoku band

EXERCISE 4 OF 44
3-bar fill at bar 42 and 1 more
53 / 177 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, CHORUS 4
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART O
PART O
14 groovesHOBEJ+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Guitar, Loneliness and Blue Planet on drums

177 bars at 193 BPM -- fast, and 3:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
193 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-11, toms through bars 12-18, hi-hat through bars 19-27, silence through bars 28-35 and toms through bars 36-41, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-18, 36-41 and 72-78, and 1 more place -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
FT |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Guitar, Loneliness and Blue Planet -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 5, 7, 19, 42, 43, 44 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- H, O -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 26-49 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 51-63 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 57-105 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Guitar, Loneliness and Blue Planet?

193 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Guitar, Loneliness and Blue Planet hard to play on drums?

64 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Guitar, Loneliness and Blue Planet?

7 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 5, 7, 19, 42, 43, 44 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED