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Lost In Blue · Nightmare

EXERCISE 1 OF 52
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART Q
PART X
CHORUS 4
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBQMDX+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lost In Blue on drums

176 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 3:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 2-30, kick and crashes through bars 31-34, hi-hat through bars 35-97, silence through bars 98-104, ride through bars 105-126 and hi-hat through bars 127-140, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 11-17 and 35-41, and 15 more places -- 41.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 10, 18, 21, 22, 25, 26 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 20-52 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 49-97 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lost In Blue?

182 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 Lost In Blue hard to play on drums?

59 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 Lost In Blue?

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 10, 18, 21, 22, 25, 26 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED