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Moanin' · Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers

Moanin' · Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers
EXERCISE 18 OF 47
Join Part D to Chorus 5 (bars 84-86)
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0 / 47 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS 5
PART D
CHORUS 5
PART D
PART D
CHORUS 11
BREAK 3
14 groovesCDBFS40+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 17
LINK · 9
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Moanin' on drums

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

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
299
LENGTH
9:00
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-20, ride through bars 21-24, silence through bars 25-33, hi-hat through bars 34-40 and ride through bars 41-45, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    21
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
Moanin' -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Bars 18-64 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 66-79 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 82-119 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 122-199 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 197-226 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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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