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Blues Loop Accompaniment In E · Blues Exercises

EXERCISE 2 OF 9
Groove B
48 / 74 BARS COVERED
0 / 9 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blues Loop Accompaniment In E on drums

74 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 1:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
1:58
DIFFICULTY
85/100

ride through bars 1-56, toms through bars 57-58, ride through bars 59-68, toms through bars 69-70, ride through bars 71-72 and snare through bars 73-74.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 11 and 13-19, and 9 more places -- 64.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    2
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
RD |x---x-x---x-x---x-x---x-|
SD |--g---x-------g---x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
Blues Loop Accompaniment In E -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 48.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Blues Loop Accompaniment In E?

150 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 Loop Accompaniment In E hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 1:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 5 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Loop Accompaniment In E?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 48.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED