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Kid Blue · Enfants

Kid Blue · Enfants
EXERCISE 4 OF 16
Fill at bar 42, 58, 106 and 138 (a small one)
132 / 154 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART S3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBGS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kid Blue on drums

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

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

TEMPO
166 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-91, silence through bars 92-96, snare through bars 97-98 and hi-hat through bars 99-154.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Kid Blue -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Bars 42-106 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 97-154 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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