Still Got The Blues · Gary Moore

81 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 76 BPM, 6:20 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesRockUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
6:20
DIFFICULTY
28/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 6 more places -- 48.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 76 BPM
STILL GOT THE BLUES · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 13, 17, 25, 29, 33 and 6 more.

LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 76 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 6 sections: 39 keep time, 12 are fills and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-12.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesBS6GS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Still Got The Blues?

76 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Still Got The Blues hard to play on drums?

28 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 6:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Still Got The Blues?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 13, 17, 25, 29, 33 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED
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