Mr. Blue Sky · Weezer

189 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 4:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-10, 12-22 and 24-35, and 1 more place -- 54.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 174 BPM
MR. BLUE SKY · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 53, 159 and 161.

LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 159 · LANDS ON BAR 160 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

189 bars across 9 sections: 157 keep time, 3 are fills, 18 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-127.

CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART J
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDAOJB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mr. Blue Sky?

174 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 Mr. Blue Sky hard to play on drums?

53 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Mr. Blue Sky?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 53, 159 and 161.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED
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