Brush With The Blues · Jeff Beck

83 bars, 4:56, at 68 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
68 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-13, 16-19 and 21-24, and 1 more place -- 25.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 68 BPM
BRUSH WITH THE BLUES · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 42, 43, 44, 45, 49, 53 and 4 more.

LOOP · 68 BPM
BARS 42-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 7 sections: 63 keep time, 10 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-27.

CHORUS
PART H
PART J
PART U
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBAMJUH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Brush With The Blues?

68 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 Brush With The Blues hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 Brush With The Blues?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 42, 43, 44, 45, 49, 53 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED
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