Cumberland Blues · Grateful Dead

94 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockCountry / Folk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 84% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-17, 20-35 and 45-68, and 2 more places -- 84% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
CUMBERLAND BLUES · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 3 sections: 91 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-94.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cumberland Blues?

120 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Cumberland Blues hard to play on drums?

62 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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