Champagne & Reefer · Muddy Waters

79 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 104 BPM, 4:32 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Jazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 90% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-35, 37-44 and 48-52 -- 90.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 104 BPM
CHAMPAGNE & REEFER · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 45 and 46.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 45-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 3 sections: 49 keep time, 2 are fills and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-44.

OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesBS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Champagne & Reefer?

104 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Champagne & Reefer hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 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 Champagne & Reefer?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 45 and 46.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED
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