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Roadhouse Blues · The Doors

EXERCISE 5 OF 40
Groove D
75 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART N
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
5 groovesECNRS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Roadhouse Blues on drums

122 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
49/100

ride through bars 3-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-40, ride through bars 41-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-48, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-23 and 29-39, and 4 more places -- 39.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o--o-----o--o--o-----o--|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x-----x--x--x-----x--|
HF |------x-----------x-----|
Roadhouse Blues -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 2, 24, 40, 52, 56, 58 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- E, C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 12-94 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Bars 73-82 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 4 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Roadhouse Blues?

120 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 Roadhouse Blues hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, 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 Roadhouse Blues?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 2, 24, 40, 52, 56, 58 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED