Members Only · Bobby Blue Bland

70 bars, 4:05, at 68 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Jazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
68 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 69% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6 and 8, and 15 more places -- 68.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 68 BPM
MEMBERS ONLY · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 25, 33, 41, 57, 65 and 1 more.

LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars across 3 sections: 61 keep time and 7 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-24.

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

Questions

What BPM is Members Only?

68 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Members Only 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?

70 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Members Only?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 25, 33, 41, 57, 65 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →