Moanin` (Master Take - Take 4) · Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers

301 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 9:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
301
LENGTH
9:03
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 86% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-23, 34-80 and 82-96, and 8 more places -- 86% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 133 BPM
MOANIN` (MASTER TAKE - TAKE 4) · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 161.

LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 161 · LANDS ON BAR 162
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

301 bars across 14 sections: 272 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-160.

CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
7 groovesBAS1S12S4+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Moanin` (Master Take - Take 4)?

133 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Moanin` (Master Take - Take 4) hard to play on drums?

47 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

301 bars, about 9:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Moanin` (Master Take - Take 4)?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 161.

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