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Still Got The Blues · Gary Moore

EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesBS6GS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Still Got The Blues on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
6:20
DIFFICULTY
28/100

hi-hat through bars 2-29, ride through bars 30-42, hi-hat through bars 43-50, ride through bars 51-55 and silence through bars 56-81.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---------x-x---------x-|
Still Got The Blues -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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, G -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-43 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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