Alvin Lee – The Bluest Blues · Alvin Lee

133 bars, 7:23, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
7:23
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-40, 42-56 and 66-68, and 8 more places -- 38% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 72 BPM
ALVIN LEE – THE BLUEST BLUES · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 41, 57, 69, 73, 81, 93 and 4 more.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 8 sections: 112 keep time, 10 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-33.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
6 groovesCBNIS8+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Alvin Lee – The Bluest Blues?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Alvin Lee – The Bluest Blues hard to play on drums?

50 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 7:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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 Alvin Lee – The Bluest Blues?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 41, 57, 69, 73, 81, 93 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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