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Alvin Lee – The Bluest Blues · Alvin Lee

EXERCISE 5 OF 34
Groove B -- Part B
51 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 40 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
6 groovesCBNIS8+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Alvin Lee – The Bluest Blues on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
7:23
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 2-81, ride through bars 82-84, hi-hat through bars 85-87, ride through bars 88-90, hi-hat through bars 91-109 and ride through bars 110-129, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    34
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--------x--x-----------|
Alvin Lee – The Bluest Blues -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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