Breezin' · George Benson

111 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 5:25 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
5:25
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 90% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 10 and 12-20, and 7 more places -- 89.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BREEZIN' · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 69 and 99.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 99 · LANDS ON BAR 100
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 2 sections: 104 keep time, 2 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-68.

VERSE
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Breezin'?

82 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 Breezin' hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 5:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Breezin'?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 69 and 99.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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