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Members Only · Bobby Blue Bland

Members Only · Bobby Blue Bland
EXERCISE 17 OF 21
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 59-61)
69 / 70 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Members Only on drums

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.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
68 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
44/100

toms through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-70.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx-x-----|
Members Only -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
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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