Bad Luck Blue Eyes Goodbye · The Black Crowes

92 bars, 6:34, at 56 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick and nothing else.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
56 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
6:34
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 92% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-8, 10-22 and 24-37, and 1 more place -- 92.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 56 BPM
BAD LUCK BLUE EYES GOODBYE · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 3, 9, 23 and 38.

LOOP · 56 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 56 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 56 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars: 86 keep time, 5 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-91.

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

Questions

What BPM is Bad Luck Blue Eyes Goodbye?

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

Is Bad Luck Blue Eyes Goodbye hard to play on drums?

47 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 6:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Bad Luck Blue Eyes Goodbye?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 3, 9, 23 and 38.

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