Minor Blues · Blues Solo

26 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 109 BPM, 1:25 of playing on hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
26
LENGTH
1:25
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 94% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-18 -- 94.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 109 BPM
MINOR BLUES · BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

26 bars across 2 sections: 18 keep time and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-18.

OUTRO
BREAK
2 groovesBS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Minor Blues?

109 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Minor Blues hard to play on drums?

37 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

26 bars, about 1:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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