Kid Blue · Enfants

154 bars at 166 BPM -- fast, and 3:43 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
166 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 88% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-37 and 39-41, and 5 more places -- 87.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 166 BPM
KID BLUE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 42, 58, 106, 138 and 146.

LOOP · 166 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 166 BPM
BAR 146 · LANDS ON BAR 147
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 5 sections: 137 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-41.

CHORUS
PART S3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBGS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kid Blue?

166 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 Kid Blue hard to play on drums?

55 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Kid Blue?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 42, 58, 106, 138 and 146.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
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