Boost My Drum · Blues Solo

17 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 0:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
17
LENGTH
0:34
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 71% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-13 and 15 -- 70.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BOOST MY DRUM · BAR 3
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 17.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 17
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

17 bars: 16 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

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

Questions

What BPM is Boost My Drum?

120 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Boost My Drum hard to play on drums?

59 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

17 bars, about 0:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Boost My Drum?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 17.

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