Moanin' · Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers

299 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 9:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
299
LENGTH
9:00
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-24, 41-45 and 51-60, and 10 more places -- 32.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 133 BPM
MOANIN' · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

299 bars across 43 sections: 213 keep time, 1 is a stop and 48 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 177-190.

PART D
PART D
CHORUS 11
BREAK 3
14 groovesCDBFS40+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Moanin'?

133 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Moanin' hard to play on drums?

61 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

299 bars, about 9:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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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