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Suite Madame Blue v2 2026 · Styx

EXERCISE 11 OF 46
Join Part E to Part F (bars 16-18)
29 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART F
PART E
PART F
PART S5
BREAK
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
12 groovesPMS5S7F+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Suite Madame Blue v2 2026 on drums

110 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-8, hi-hat through bars 9-27, silence through bars 28-41, ride through bars 42-45 and silence through bars 46-58, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-17 -- 11.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------x-----|
Suite Madame Blue v2 2026 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 24, 26, 59 and 13 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 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 18-61 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Break 2 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Suite Madame Blue v2 2026?

122 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Suite Madame Blue v2 2026 hard to play on drums?

57 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Suite Madame Blue v2 2026?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 24, 26, 59 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED