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Sloe Gin (Royal Albert) · Joe Bonamassa

EXERCISE 15 OF 73
Join Part F to Part E (bars 37-39)
89 / 192 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART E
CHORUS
PART F
PART E
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART AG
BREAK 2
12 groovesBFS20GO+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 10
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sloe Gin (Royal Albert) on drums

192 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 5:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-21, ride through bars 22-24, hi-hat through bars 25-30 and ride through bars 31-45, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-20, 56-61 and 64-78 -- 21.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------r-------|
BD |x---------------|
Sloe Gin (Royal Albert) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 21, 33, 47, 55, 62, 79 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- B, J -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 20-34 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-53 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 44-63 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 86-95 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 111-134 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sloe Gin (Royal Albert)?

145 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 Sloe Gin (Royal Albert) hard to play on drums?

42 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

192 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Sloe Gin (Royal Albert)?

14 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 21, 33, 47, 55, 62, 79 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 192 BARS ANALYSED