The Blue · Acid Bath

164 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 7:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
7:49
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-23, 34-40 and 145-146, and 1 more place -- 13% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 84 BPM
THE BLUE · BARS 18-19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 26 more.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 18 sections: 104 keep time, 32 are fills, 3 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 144-154.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART W
PART W
PART AH
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesAHAHWO+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Blue?

84 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 The Blue hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 7:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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 The Blue?

16 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED
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