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looks red, tastes blue · Mayday Parade

EXERCISE 1 OF 44
Groove C -- Part C
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PART C
PART D
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO
8 groovesGCNJD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play looks red, tastes blue on drums

101 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-52, snare through bars 53-73, toms through bars 74-76 and snare through bars 77-101.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 8 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
looks red, tastes blue -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 28, 49, 53, 57, 61, 64 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- C, G -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-51 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 75-90 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is looks red, tastes blue?

110 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 looks red, tastes blue hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 8 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 looks red, tastes blue?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 28, 49, 53, 57, 61, 64 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED