Blues 1 · Anco

109 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 125 BPM, 2:37 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Hip Hop / Reggae120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
2:37
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 10 more places -- 47.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BLUES 1 · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 5 sections: 105 keep time and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-33.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
3 groovesBDS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blues 1?

125 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Blues 1 hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 2:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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