The Whole Blue World · Ave Mujica

185 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:11 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-37, 39-44 and 71-77, and 3 more places -- 26.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 200 BPM
THE WHOLE BLUE WORLD · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 2, 6, 19, 27, 45, 46 and 15 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

185 bars across 18 sections: 108 keep time, 21 are fills, 10 are stops and 36 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 88-126.

PART I
CHORUS
PART Z
CHORUS 2
PART AI
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesUAIS18IO+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Whole Blue World?

200 BPM, in 4/4, 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 The Whole Blue World hard to play on drums?

49 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 The Whole Blue World?

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 2, 6, 19, 27, 45, 46 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED
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