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Classical Blues Riffs · Blues Exercises

EXERCISE 26 OF 31
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 47-49)
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0 / 31 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART E
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAEHMQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Classical Blues Riffs on drums

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.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
1:30
DIFFICULTY
74/100

hi-hat through bars 1-36 and ride through bars 37-60.

The beat

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.

    49
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |------------x-------x---------------x-------x---|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-------------------------------x---------------|
Classical Blues Riffs -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- Q, A -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part H -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 60 BARS ANALYSED