Classical Blues Riffs · Blues Exercises

60 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 1:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
1:30
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-55 and 57-59 -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
CLASSICAL BLUES RIFFS · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 16, 20, 28, 32 and 60.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

60 bars across 5 sections: 48 keep time and 5 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-11.

CHORUS
PART E
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAEHMQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Classical Blues Riffs?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Classical Blues Riffs hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 1:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 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 Classical Blues Riffs?

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 16, 20, 28, 32 and 60.

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