A Major Improvising Licks + Bass · Blues Exercises

16 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 0:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
16
LENGTH
0:32
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-11 and 13-15 -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
A MAJOR IMPROVISING LICKS + BASS · BAR 7
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 6 and 12.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

16 bars: 12 keep time, 2 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-11.

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

Questions

What BPM is A Major Improvising Licks + Bass?

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 A Major Improvising Licks + Bass hard to play on drums?

48 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

16 bars, about 0:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 A Major Improvising Licks + Bass?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 6 and 12.

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