Bold As Love · Jimi Hendrix

75 bars, 4:40, at 64 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
64 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 62, 68 and 70, and 2 more places -- 7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 64 BPM
BOLD AS LOVE · BAR 62
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 34, 42, 44 and 16 more.

LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 11 sections: 39 keep time, 22 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-14.

PART B
PART F
PART P
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesUASBFP+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bold As Love?

64 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Bold As Love hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Bold As Love?

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 34, 42, 44 and 16 more.

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