12 Bar Blues · Blues Exercises

13 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 0:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
13
LENGTH
0:26
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-4, 7-8 and 11-12 -- 46.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
12 BAR BLUES · BAR 3
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

13 bars: 12 keep time and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-12.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 12 Bar Blues?

120 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 12 Bar Blues hard to play on drums?

45 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

13 bars, about 0:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 3 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 13 BARS ANALYSED
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