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Brush With The Blues · Jeff Beck

EXERCISE 7 OF 37
Run B1 · Chorus (bars 2-28)
31 / 83 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 27 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART H
PART J
PART U
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBAMJUH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Brush With The Blues on drums

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.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
68 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
71/100

snare through bars 2-18, hi-hat through bars 19-20, snare through bars 21-23, hi-hat through bars 24-28, snare through bars 29-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-42, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-------g-----------g---x-------g-----------g---|
Brush With The Blues -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- B, H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AL -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 2-35 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part H and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part U and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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