Where Our Blue Is/ Ao No Sumika · Tatsuya Kitani

55 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 1:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
55
LENGTH
1:28
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 31-32, 35-36 and 39-40, and 1 more place -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 152 BPM
WHERE OUR BLUE IS/ AO NO SUMIKA · BARS 31-32
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 26, 27, 33, 34, 38 and 9 more.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 152 BPM
BARS 26-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

55 bars across 7 sections: 33 keep time, 15 are fills, 4 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-21.

PART A
PART F
PART A
OUTRO
6 groovesLAFS1S3+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Where Our Blue Is/ Ao No Sumika?

152 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Where Our Blue Is/ Ao No Sumika hard to play on drums?

61 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 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

55 bars, about 1:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 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 Where Our Blue Is/ Ao No Sumika?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 26, 27, 33, 34, 38 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 55 BARS ANALYSED
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