Câline de blues · offenbach

125 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 128 BPM, 2:56 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-27, and 2 more places -- 40.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
CÂLINE DE BLUES · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 9, 28, 29, 49, 52 and 11 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 28-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 6 sections: 103 keep time and 17 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-27.

PART B
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesFBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Câline de blues?

128 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Câline de blues hard to play on drums?

56 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 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 Câline de blues?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 9, 28, 29, 49, 52 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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