Same Blue · Official Hige Dandism

125 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 184 BPM, 3:47 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9 -- 8.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 184 BPM
SAME BLUE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24 and 28 more.

LOOP · 184 BPM
BARS 18-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BARS 24-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 11 sections: 32 keep time, 34 are fills, 11 are stops and 40 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-9.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART X
PART AH
PART AN
OUTRO
BREAK 2
11 groovesS11NXDAN+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Same Blue?

184 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Same Blue hard to play on drums?

45 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 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 Same Blue?

12 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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