St. Louis Blues · Jimmy Reed

60 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 2:24 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
2:24
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 62% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 14-16 and 21-24, and 3 more places -- 61.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
ST. LOUIS BLUES · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

60 bars across 4 sections: 56 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-60.

CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDFEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is St. Louis Blues?

100 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 St. Louis Blues hard to play on drums?

53 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 2:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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