Blue On Black · Kenny Wayne Shepherd

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 5:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / BluesRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 5 and 7, and 12 more places -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BLUE ON BLACK · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 24, 26, 32, 34, 38 and 16 more.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 9 sections: 70 keep time and 22 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

CHORUS
PART L
PART V
PART L
PART AH
PART V
PART AL
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesALVALAHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blue On Black?

78 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 Blue On Black hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 20 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Blue On Black?

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 24, 26, 32, 34, 38 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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