Blue Jean Blues (No Drum Kit) · ZZ Top

52 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 66 BPM, 4:38 of playing on hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
66 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
52
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-13 and 26-35 -- 55.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 66 BPM
BLUE JEAN BLUES (NO DRUM KIT) · BAR 5
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

52 bars across 5 sections: 31 keep time and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-13.

CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesCS5DS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blue Jean Blues (No Drum Kit)?

66 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Blue Jean Blues (No Drum Kit) hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

52 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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