I'll Play The Blues For You. · Albert King

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 20-27 and 39, and 6 more places -- 40.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 96 BPM
I'LL PLAY THE BLUES FOR YOU. · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 10 sections: 74 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-27.

CHORUS
PART B
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCBIHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I'll Play The Blues For You.?

96 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 I'll Play The Blues For You. hard to play on drums?

44 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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