Blues Garage · Michael Borner

37 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 1:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
37
LENGTH
1:09
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 68% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-9, 12 and 14-21, and 1 more place -- 67.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BLUES GARAGE · BARS 4-5
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 13, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 4 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 22-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 34-37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

37 bars: 15 keep time, 10 are fills and 12 are stops.

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

Questions

What BPM is Blues Garage?

128 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 Blues Garage hard to play on drums?

49 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

37 bars, about 1:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Blues Garage?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 13, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 37 BARS ANALYSED
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