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The Whole Blue World · Ave Mujica

EXERCISE 3 OF 52
2-bar fill at bar 85
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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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Whole Blue World on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 3-6, snare through bars 7-11, hi-hat through bars 12-27, toms through bars 28-30, snare through bars 31-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-61, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---xx|
The Whole Blue World -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- U, AI -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AJ -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 7-12 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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