Perfect Blue · Lovejoy

103 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 3:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-14, 16-18 and 20-22, and 4 more places -- 21.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 117 BPM
PERFECT BLUE · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 25, 26, 34, 42, 62, 63 and 10 more.

LOOP · 117 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 117 BPM
BARS 62-65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 11 sections: 72 keep time and 16 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-22.

CHORUS
PART E
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART E
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART T
OUTRO
7 groovesCEJMT+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Perfect Blue?

117 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 Perfect Blue hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Perfect Blue?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 25, 26, 34, 42, 62, 63 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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