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Perfect Blue · Lovejoy

EXERCISE 10 OF 43
Groove G (a two-bar phrase)
68 / 103 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART E
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Perfect Blue on drums

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.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, toms through bars 25-26, ride through bars 27-33, snare through bars 34-40, hi-hat through bars 41-62 and toms through bars 63-65, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10               11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-xxx-x-xx|xxx-o---x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x--x-x--|x--x------x---x-|
Perfect Blue -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- E, C -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-35 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 24-43 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 41-66 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 86-95 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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