Beck's Bolero · Jeff Beck

98 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 2:57 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-22, 34 and 36, and 8 more places -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 133 BPM
BECK'S BOLERO · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 54, 70, 78, 82, 96, 97 and 1 more.

LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 4 sections: 86 keep time, 7 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-50.

PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDECHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Beck's Bolero?

133 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Beck's Bolero hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Beck's Bolero?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 54, 70, 78, 82, 96, 97 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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